H.M.S. REPULSE
SAFE AT ANCHOR NAZI STORY UNTRUE CRUISE OF 25,000 MILES * (Omciai wireless) (Received Feb. 15, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 14 The battle-cruiser Repulse, which has been reported sunk by German wireless broadcasts, is lying safely at anchor in a British port. During the lirst 140 days of the war she steamed about 25,000 miles and has been at sea approximately 130 days. Taking her part in scouring the seas for German raiders, she only had an opportunity of using her antiaircraft batteries, and the single casualty was a cat washed overboard in the high seas. Unfortunately for German propagandists the story of the sinking of the Repulse is not confirmed.
The 1914 edition of the German Naval Pocket Book stated on October 14: "The Repulse was destroyed by U-boats at Scapa Flow at the same time as the Royal Oak was sunk.' 1
Her 32,000-lon presence is ample demonstration of the falsity of the entry, which, however, was in keeping with a broadcast from Konigsbej'g tin February 7. which announced the sinking of the steamship Oregon. Tins ship arrived safely in Lisbon, as the German broadcaster to Portugal from Zeesen announced on February 11, possibly having forgotten the previous claim.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21039, 15 February 1940, Page 8
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