COL. PHILLIMORE: You would not have seen it?
WAGNER: I do not recall this document.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Why do you say it emanated from “Iia?” It has “Ia” at the end of it.
WAGNER: If this memorandum was dispatched then I also saw it...
COL. PHILLIMORE: I will just read the next part of the note to remind you.
“The following facts have thus been ascertained:”—this is what you are writing to the Foreign Office—
“The steamer Deptford was sunk by a German U-boat on 13 December...”
I am sorry. I should have started earlier.
“It is suggested that Norwegian notes regarding the sinking of the steamships Deptford, Thomas Walton, and Garoufalia be answered somewhat in the following manner:
“As a result of the communication from the Norwegian Government, the matter of the sinking of the steamships Deptford, Thomas Walton, and Garoufalia has been thoroughly investigated. The following facts have thus been ascertained: