'A. sensation was caused in the House of Commons yesterday" when Mr. Winston Churchill, Pirst Lord of the Admiralty, disclosed that TIMS, Royal Oak, 29180-ton battleship, was sunk by a U-boat while at Seas Flow, hitherto considered arum pregnable naval base.
'They listened silently ax Mr, Churchill paid tribute tothe skill and daring' of the voider's command-€r, acknowledging the courage and ability that made the attack on the Royal Onk passive.
While MP's admitted that the feat was remarkable, they also voiced impatience to learn the results of the enquiry that has been opened by the First Lord into. the extraordinary circumstances of the U-boat attack. Naval observers said that the Ger man submarine had. probably entered the Scapa Flow base in the wake of a warship, thus avoiding the bar~ Yage of nets and mines that protected HI." Subject of much conjecture, however, was the means of escape of the U-boat after it made its ro-eated torpedo utlacks on the battle: ship, which was believed to have Deen, sent down by four or five of the "iron fsb,
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