-Berlin Announcement; Reported by London; British Ships Warned London, Sept. 30.
Germany had "served warning on Great Britain that her submarines henceforth would wage unrestricted warfare against all British merchant vessels, the Ministry of Information announced today. It could therefore be expected that Germany will soon change her methods of submarine warfare and the warning to watch out for such a change was sent by the Admiralty today to all British ships, the Ministry added.
"German Radio," it declared, "announced that every British merchant ship would now be considered a warship, It stated that German submarines had been attacked by British merchant ships in the past few days. Adolf Hiller according to German Radio asserts that German submarines have observed irterfiational law by always warning trading vessels before attacking them. Now, however, according to Herr Hitler, Germany will have to re-tallote. by regarding every ship of the British merchant marine as a warship."
At the same time that it issued this report, the Ministry, denied German allegations that British ships attacked German submarines—Havas.
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