THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 6, 1939. -
FUNNY STORY OR GRIM NAZI THREAT ?
AMERICANS WARNED THAT SHIP WILL BE SUNK
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Washington, To-day.
THE WHITE HOUSE announced last night that the head of the German Navy has told the United States naval attache in Berlin that the American steamer Iroquois, from Europe to the United States with evacuated Americans, will be sunk when she nears the American coast !
Mr. Stephen Early, President Roosevelt's secretary, announcing this, said the warning had been fully discussed by the Cabinet and it was decided that all the facts should be made known. "The information, he said, had been conveyed to the United States naval attache in Berlin by Grand-Admiral Raeder, the Nazi naval chief.
"The Iroquois is a 6,210-ton vessel and is owned by the New York and Miami Steamship Co., the managers of which are the Clyde Steamship Co.
Mr. Early said that Admir- al Raeder tried to connect his "warning" with the sinking of the Athenia, the sugges tion being, of course, that the Iroquois would be sunk by a British or French craft in an attempt to throw the blame on Germany and antagonise American opinion against Germany.
American opinion ridicules the idea that such action by the British or French is possible, but points out that. that does not mean that the Iroquois is in no danger.
"We do not believe," said one high administrative official, "that Britain or France would do any such thing as to sink an American ship. The warning from Germany viewed in that light is an extra- ordinary thing,”
'ESCORT TO BE SENT
HELL-SHIP TO BE PONTOON
La Martiniere, 3,718-ton "hell- ship" that has carried thousands of Frenchmen across the Atlantic Devil's to life imprisonment on Island, in the Carribean Sea, has
made her last trip.
Stripped of her steel bars and machine-gun fittings, she is to be turned into a pontoon for use at St. Nazaire dockyard.
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The master of the "Iroquois" has been advised to keep a special look- out and given a rendezvous with coastguard vessels and naval craft which are being sent out to meet her as a precautionary measure.-Reuter.
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