SCAPA SINKINGS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1810, 2 December 1919, Page 11

SCAPA SINKINGS.

GERMANY BLAMES ALLIES. Bv Cable. — Press Association.—Com/right. Retiier's Telegrams. (Rec. Dec. 2, 2.15) RERLIN. Not. 29. Germany has sent a memorandum to the Peace Conference blaming the Allies for the Scapa sinkings, as the warships, contrary to the Armistice, were not interned in a neutral port but in a British port. Germany contends that Admiral von Beuter. cut off from communication with his homeland, was bound to assume that the Armistice ended on June 21, and ordered the sinkings in accordance with seamen's usage. Admiral von Beuter was withdrawn from the German Government's authority and the latter, therefore, was not responsible for his acts, but in order to prevent the dispute delaying the Peace Treaty having the effect which is urgently desired, Germany is prepared to have the affair submitted to the permanent Court of A'bifrntion at The Hague.