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GERMANY’S UNPARDONABLE CRIME VIOLATION OF PLEDGED WORD (DECLARATION BY BRITISH MINISTER. NO EXCUSE POSSIBLE. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, September .4. Mr A. V. Alexander, in the House of Commons, expressed the horror, disgust and indignation of all- sections of the population at the unpardonable outrage against,,the mercantile marine. Earl Stanhope, in the House of Lords, said that in abrogating the Anglo-German Naval Treaty, Germany quite definitely left the part of the treaty relating to submarines untouched Her obligations had not been rescinded. The War Cabinet had dealt with the matter with the utmost promptitude. Earl Stanhope added that the Athenia was unarmed, with no possible means of defending herself. The excuse made in the case of the Lusitania, that she was carrying rifle ammunition in a hold, could not be made on this occasion. “REPORT UNTRUE” ACCORDING TO GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE. “NO WARCRAFT IN THAT AREA.” (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) BERLIN, September 4. The Foreign Office informed the United States Charge d'Affaires that the report of the torpedoing of the Athenia was untrue, because the Navy was ordered to abide by the international regulations for the conduct of warfare, Also there were no German warcraft in that area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 6
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