the Editor of the "Nomm-Cinxa Dany News"
Sim—Last night I was _privileged to listen in to a German short-wave broadcast in English which announced that the Athenia had been sunk by three British destroyers. 1 am really at a loss to understand why the "Nazi, Propaganda Department Jdoes not tell the truth, which, T-am sure, would be much more telling in thei? "favour than anything else, First they said the Athenia had been sunk by a mine, then by a British submarine at Mr. Winston Chur chills orders, then this story, 'The truth. is that this unfortunate' vessel was sunk by Mr. Winston Churchill himself, who followed the ship out to sca on a pair of water~ skis and sent her to the bottom with a couple of well-directed stink bbomibs and then made off, For this dastardly crime Mr, Churchill was wearing a rather tight bathing sult, a black mask and hard felt hat, 7 Tecognized him by. the hat, T was there, so 1 know, Shanghai, Oct, 23, Another Novel Theory To the Editor of the "Normi-Cutxa Datcy News"
Sim—ANantas is either a straight forward lar or else he was under the affluence of incohol at the time of the Athenia affair, because his version of the sinking is" entirely wrong and I who have been a witness to. the "occurrence, hereby challenge him to deny the' facts as T saw them at the time and as set out below:
1—The Athenia was not a passenger steamer at all, She was one Of the most up-to-date destroyers of HM Navy and it had taken three months and two weeks to disguise —Mr, Winston Churchill was not present at the sinking, for the simple Feason that on that very day he hod been ordered to leave for Wilhelmshaven to confer with Admiral von Roeder, regarding the handing-over to the Reich, of the entire Brit'sh fleet," This was done in view of th fact that Mr, Chamberlain—fully realized the "hopelessness of _the British chances in this war. The Prime Minister, as will have been. noticed from." recent _news-photo-Rraphs, was exceedingly worried fever the fact that he had made such harsh reply to peace-loving Adolf and wanted to make up by handing the entire fleet over to the Germans, Von Roeder refused, however, and thus Great Britain Is forced to find rays and means to fight this war end on the basis of 3 oz, of butler _per_ month per person, \—The Ministry of Lies in Lon~ don, which had been responsible for teresting such hard feelings among Britons towards peace-loving little Addis, thereupon ordered three destroyers (FE was on one of them, the Emdenshire) to torpedo the Athenia so that the Ministry of Lies which, in direct contradiction Goebbel's establishment in Berlin, exercises strict censorship on the Dress, could release a story to the effect that the British Navy has revolted and is bombarding British ships. This would have only the beginning, Later" revolts amorist the Expeditionary Forces in France would have been" broadcast and everything would have led towards a peace honour with Germany, whereby If would have agreed to stop the Australia and Singa'
Item No, 3 went wrong, however, because in its usual ineiMcient manner, the peace-mongers at, the Ministry of Lies failed to. inform Mr, Churchill of what had happened, for' two hours after the bombarding bby the Eméenshire of the Athen: Churchill returned to London. infuriated as von Racder had. not only demanded of him the ren of the British fleet, but also the handing-over of the British Conces-ion in Tientsin, 5.—Churehill immediately went to his' office, 50, mad that he failed 10, read th "details concerning the Sinking of the Athenia, merely. gazing at the file and reading the words "Athenian Sunk." "Thereupon, he called a conlldential _press-con: ference and told the: papers 10 20 splash the story in the British version of the fon is was not Mr, Chur-to point out that the person he saw
chill (Please see above for confirma. tion) but a BBC. the s.nking. Unfortunately, the telephone Ts ich connected a worldwide hook-up tore on his! way and he was fired immediately, Tam writing a Red-Book on the subject, Advance copies may be had Jat specially reduced price.
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