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One Of War's Most Dramatic Episodes
U-Boat
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 4, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
No.
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AIN'T WE GONNA BE
SOMETHIN?
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Food Ministry Finds Plot To Wreck Meat Control
Sinks Nazi, FARMERS
Italian Internees
LONDON, July 3 (Reuter)-About 1,000 scantily-clad sur- vivors of the British liner, Arandora Star, which was torpedoed by a German submarine when carrying 1,500 German and Italian internees to Canada, were landed by a British ship at a Scottish port to-day.
British soldiers were aboard acting as guards.
It is learned that the ship went down with many German and Italian victims.
There was pante aboard and the rush seriously hampered the getting away of the lifeboats.
WAR
Thoy Cursed Warfare Two soldier sald the ship struck without warning and they added: "We cursed the U-boat, but not so much as did the Germans and Italians who were almost ferocious In their denunciation of this type of warfare,
"Such was the scramble that we ad difficulty in getting into the life- bonts."
The Captain and several of the ship's officers were standing on the bridge and decks, and it is feared Uat several went down with the vessel.
Bad Feeling
ship open as she began to settle very rapidly.
"Everyone was provided with e- belts and life-beats were rapidly lowered and rafts put out.
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"After two hours in the water,} swimming and resting on our planks, we saw a plane and knew that sistance would soon be on ita way.
"Eventually
were hauled; aboard
an blready over-crowded British ship, which had 150 people aboard. Fortunately the sea was not rough, but all around us we could see the water strewn with wreckage and bodies."
Total Lossos Unknown'
An official of Frederick Leyland and Co., owners of the liner, stated fo-night that the total losses could not yet be established.
He hoped that more survivors might yet, be landed in addition to those who have arrived at a Scottish | port.
The skipper of the Arandora Stor Some of the British soldiers bitterlys Captain E. W. Moulton, who has commented on the conduct of the had charge of the vessel since 1927. German prisoners, describing them na In pre-war days, when the Arandora big hulking brutes who tried to Star was a cruising liner, he took sweep away the Italians and had to her practically all over the world. be forcibly restrained.
Bitter hostility between Germans and Italians was apparent both on the finer and the rescue ship, and, troops were constantly on guard to prevent blows being struck.
No estimate of the total casualties in yet possible, but the Italians, most of whom were traders in this country, appear to have been the worst sufferers.
Casualties were suffered by mem-
bers of the crew and British troops. Rescue Work By Nazi
The Arandara Star was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland.
968 Drowned LONDON, July 3 (UP)-It is re- yealed that 968 out of 1,040 hostile Italian and German internees were drowned as a result of the torpedoing of the prison ship Andora Star.
About 1,000 survivors have been landed at a Scottish port,
Those aboard Included 1,590 Ger- nans und Italians, 300 crew and 200 guards,
Survivors who landed at Scottish
When a life-boat copsized, a cup-ports were barefooted,
tured German aboard went to help They said that the guards had to and succeeded in righting the boat. use their rifle buits to "qulet
He then set about rescuing those in the water.
Italians,
the
screaming mobs of Germans and but the aliens outnumbered The owners of the Arandora Star the guards and flung themselves into state that a fair proportion of the the lifeboats in a most disorderly crew were saved.
Struck Without Warning The vessel was carrying about 2,000 persons and the survivors had had terrible stories to tell of the scenes
beard before the liner on Jank
The ship was struck without warn- ling in broad daylight about ¤ o'clock In the morning, according to two soldiers, who snid:,
manner.
"Many of them were killed by Jumping from the decks."
JOURNALISTS MOBILISED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, July 3 (UP)The amcial gazette to-day published a decree
AND BUTCHERS
RATION RUSTLING
A WIDESPREAD SCHEME in which farmers and butchers are co-operating
to defeat meat rationing has been discovered by the South Western Divisional Food
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GERMANY AND WAR IN THE AIR
Office.
A number of prosecutions are to take place and others are under con- sideration.
of
Evidence regarding illegal sale mest in Bristol is now being con- aldered by the food authority.
Soll At Any Price Investigations have shown that formers are illegally slaughtering livestock and supplying butchers with meat, which they are able to sell without coupons, aid at any price. they choose.
we
have found that ilgal slaughtering is prevalent, and we are taking steps to stamp it out," a Food Ministry oMeinl 40 the "Daily Herald."
It is believed that in some districts, farmers and butchers are combining
in this illegal action, becauso prime meat killed in the district has been taken away and foreign meat sent into the area to take its place.
In other cases butchers anxious to satisfy wealthy customers have per- suaded farmers to do
illegal slaughterring so that "good" cus- tomers may be satisfied.
Mayor's Warning
The Mayor of Gillingham, Kent, Councillor L. J. Newham, told the local food control committee that some butchers were dograntly abus- ing the ment rationing order.
If further cases were reported, he said, proceedings would be taken in the police court,
MYSTERY SUB. NEAR CANAL
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, July 3 (UP)—A US. Army plane sighted a large sub- marine off the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal a week ago.
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The submarine was apparently. capable of cruising long distances.
Unomcial sources here speculating whether the report was Inspired by the sudden mine planting at the canal entrances.
Now York Report
New York, July 3 (UP).-The "New York Daily News" speelpl correspon. dent at Ancon in the Canal Zone con- Arms reports of the presence of a Pacific entrance to the Canal last week.
They said the vessel appeared off Tabogu Island and was scen by several enlisted men. It cruised on the surface for a few minutes and disappeared before it could be identified.
"The internees, particularly the signed by Musson! placing Italian LONDON, July 3, (Reuter),—DISCUSSING THE POSSI-foreign submarine near the Italians, made a wild scramble for journalists under the civil mobilisa- the Wire-boats pushing everyone aside tion scheme whereby they become BLE future role of the German Air Force, Charles Gardiner, in their cagerness.
subject to war discipline.
the B.B.C. observer with the R.A.T., said that the air war is now likely to enter on its second phase at any time, that of
concentrated and intensified action,
Only Ono Torpedo
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So for the Germans have concen- We know now that it is not true trated on night raidh, half and half that night raiders always get through, affairs, of which one half has been and that our defences are stronger Enquiries revealed that all Ameri- bombing, the other reconnaissance, than those of Germany. Our de-can submarines were at the naval probing to find out where our defences have been particularly good base at the time. fences are.
at the protection of military targets,¦ --- It would be looking through blin-making the Germon bombing, inae- kers to regard the night raids as the
layer on layer of M-100 and M-110 curate.
fightera. real thing. They have been nothing They do not always miss, but one Ilke as force and concentrated as the should remember when
We shall have to keep fighter RAF. raids night and day on indus about bombs falling in open spaces aquadrons ready outside the imme- trial Germany.
and felds that that is not where the diate area of battle, but we shall Why this restraint? Germany hus enemy intended them to fall and have enough Hurricanes and Spitfires been mainly checking up on search every bomb that misses is just as to put up an air battle far bigger light and gun positions and fading much a victory as every plane that than that at Dunkirk, out how our fighters work at night, is brought down.
the German single-seat fighters being
tably poor at this sort of work
onc henra
Why They Fight Shy There are three main reasons why have been trying to find which the Germans have done practically of our defences have been held by nothing in the sphere of daylight, guns and which by ighters,
west England.
At Dunkirk, we had success at odds of four to one and he has no doubt that in this new and possibly declsive nght that Agure will be reduced.
Potent Weapon
While this is going on, the Germans
and raids hence the widespread ralds ranging] 1. The German air force works will probably try to put into use any from north-east Scotland to south-in every campaign as an army. co-information they have got from the operation unit, bombers being used night roids. Day bombing will pro- Such bombs as were dropped were as long or short range artillery. incidental, and possibly camouflage. 2.The Germans in this war have never been guilty of using men, Information By Radio There are stories current that some petrol, machines and bombs with no planes flew over to pick up radio in- immediate gains to be achieved.
3. The enemy has only had one formation from small transmitters operated by spies on the ground, full scale meeting with our Metro- This is said to have happened in politan air force, and. That was at side then-the binckout.
Dunkirk-whore they were badly France.
not
that
Mr. Gardiner has never heard of beaten. They lost a lot of planes this himself but it is possible. He and trained men, and Diey are personally doubted whether there again until they have to.
ergoing to run themselves into mans had found anything of value so far, even if they found where guns were located, for these can be shifted,
over a
Future Air Wor
In his view, German. aircraft will and it is impossible from aeroplanes, not be used on an intense scale until the Invasion starts. That will be a flying at over 20,000 feet
on which bincked-out country, to place within battle for air supremacy: miles the positions of guns and the future of the war will depend. It will not be as spread out as searchlights.
it was in France, but will ̈60 a concentration of 'planes on both sides in a comparatively smali space of sky.
and
They have given us something useful. They have given us a first- class experience of co-operation. belween searchlights, guns -Bghters. This past week has help ed smooth out a number of spa which are inevitable at first.
It is unreasonable to assume that the Germons will not depart from their usual tactic of using huge waves of bombers protected from above by
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fences will then come.
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