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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 20, 1941
Torpedo
PATROCLUS WAS Greek
TORPEDOED ON RESCUE MISSIONugh
IT HAS BEEN REVEALED that the armed merchant cruiser Patroclus, 11,314 tons, was tor- pedoed while rescuing survivors of the former Cunard-White Star liner Laurentic, 18,724 tons, another armed merchant cruiser.
A distress signal had brought the Patroclus dashing to the scene. The Laurentic was sinking While the and the crew were in the lifeboats. Patroclus was still performing her work of mercy a torpedo struck her and she crumpled up and went down rapidly.
deal of four and a half hours in the sea.
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- More details have come through of the sinking of a large Italian transport, the Sardinia, by the Greek They are the outward signs of submarine Proteus, which inner cleanliness has not yet returned to cleared regularly of bodily port.
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other from Italian prisoners
say that the ships in the convoy Sardinia was sunk off Valona and that very few of the hundreds of Italian troops on board her were saved.
Other Italian prisoners are re- ported to have said that the port of Valona has been rendered use- less for large-scale landings as result of repeated R. A. F. and
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The torpedo explosion Capt. Wynter had survived the Greek Air Force bombing attacks. wrecked one lifeboat and others were capsized. The U-boat, not content with having torpedoed the two liners, tried to get at the lifeboats with shellfire.
An Athens report says that very few Italian acroplanes are ac- now, and that Scottish and tually in Albania re-equipped with those which are there have come English, were clothing and footwear and sent from Southern Italy during the to their homes by special train. past few weeks They comprised 52 officers and 316
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When 631 officers and men from the two shups were landed at Scottish port a dramatic story was told of the survival of Capt G. C. Wynter, commander of the Patro. | clus. He had been given up for lost after being seen clinging to a piece of wreckage, but apparently in difficulties.
Barefooted They Cheered
His shipmates, who travelled in another rescue ship, were amazed to see him follow them on to the wharf at the port when they land- ed.
They were so overjoyed that they broke into cheers despite many of them being ill-clad, bare- footed and suffering from cold.
The men hoisted their com- mander shoulder high, and after repeating their cheers sang "For he's a jolly good follow."
ONE-SIDED DEAL IN FRANCE
Evidence continues to reach London showing that the much advertised "collaboration" between France and Germany is a very one-sided affair.
One example is arrangements for compensation paid to persons whose goods have been requisi- tioned by the German army. The rate fixed is generous but accord- ing to a recent decree of the Vichy Finance Ministry it is France who pays.
Whether the cost of this co- pensation is reckoned as part of the immense daily charges which France is paying in respect of the German occupation or whether inj exchange for paying out francs) the Vichy Government obtains credit in the recently introduced clearing account is not known, but either way the French nation be- neflts little by the transaction.
These payments to individuals have, moreover, little effect since| the increase in money is unaccom- panied by an increase in goods.
Another instance is that in which private safe deposit boxes! are being dealt with. Last July the Germans ordered all banks tő supply a list of these and forbade their being opened except in the presence of a German financial authority, Later the Germans. announced these boxes must be opened "voluntarily before Janu- ary 10, otherwise the authorities would open the sates themselves.
Reliable reports show that when the safes were opened all gold, foreign money and securities and unset stones are lodged with the But name of the safeholders. they are blocked by the Germans.
British Wireless,
ratings from the Laurentic and 33 fficers and 230 ratings from the Patroclus.
70 from the Laurentie.
The Patroclus was owned by the China Mutual Steam Naviga - She was built af tion Co., Ltd
It is believed that about 90 men were lost from the Patroclus and | Greenock in 1923.
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