1940-02-15 — Page 9

U-Boat Meets Swift Retribution In Atlantic.

SUBMARINE WAR

INTENSIFIED

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LONDON, TO-DAY.

SWIFT RETRIBUTION FOLLOWED THE SINKING BY A NAZI SUBMARINE OF THE 12,000-TON STEAMER, SULTAN STAR, 250 MILES FROM THE IRISH COAST, YESTERDAY. Within half an hour, according to an official noti- fication by the Admiralty, the U-boat responsi- ble for the sinking, had been detected by British naval craft and destroyed.

This U-boat was the second to be the Gretafield, 10,000 tons, and Bri- destroyed in the day, according to the tish Triumph, 8,500 tons. Admiralty statement, which does not however disclose the circumstances.

As two U-boats were destroyed on February 9, the Royal Navy has claimed four in five days.

The Gretafeld was sunk off the north-east coast of Scotland, and 28 of her crew were rescued. Thirteen are missing.

The British Triumph capsized after The loss of the Sultan Star brought an explosion. Her crew of 42 are British sinkings in the day to 30,000 |safe.

tons, the other victims being the One of the crew, a lad of 18, is the 10,000-ton Gretafleld, of whose crew assistant wireless operator; he has thirteen are missing, and the 8,000-only made two voyages-and this is ton British Triumph, a tanker, of his second ship-wreck!-Reuter. whose crew five are missing.

The German declaration of un- restricted U-boat warfare against any neutral ships which touch at an Allied port, even if compelled, by the British Contraband Con- trol, resulted yesterday In the sinking of savoral neutrals. Details are not yet available but at least five ranging from 2,000 to 4,500 tons are reported to have been tor- pedoed and sunk, all five belonging to the Scandinavian countries. — Havas.

TORPEDOED IN EARLY MORNING

New York, To-day.

reports

that

DISASTER OFF COAST OF NORFOLK

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London, To-day.

An unidentified vessal turned turtle near the coast of Norfolk last night and is at present float- ing with har keel above water.

A patrol vessel picked up a few men drifting in two lifeboats be- lived to be from the overturned vessel. Three other lifeboats were signalled by R.A.F. planes to a nearby ship which rescued them.-Havas.

"REPULSE"

***Built at Birkenhead by Cammell AT ANCHOR

Laird in 1928, the Gretafleld was own- ed by the Northern Petroluem Tank S.S. Co. (Hunting and Son, managers). Registered at Newcastle, she was 10,191 tons gross and 500 feet long.

leum in bulk.

London, To-day. The battle cruiser Repulse, which has been reported sunk

GERMANS TO TRY TO

KILL CRITICISM

Zurich, To-day.

A big campaign in Ger- many against the free- dom of the neutral press is expected to follow Dr. Goebbels' speech, ac- cording to the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung" cor- respondent in Berlin.

The reason for the Goeb- bels outburst is believed to be primarily the indignation aroused in Scandinavia and Holland by the submarine campaign against neutrals.

Tha correspondent says the satis- faction felt over neutral shipping losses

read can be clearly

between the lines in the German press. The Ger-

Fitted for oil fuel, she carried petro- by German wireless broad-man public are not allowed to know cast, is lying safely at anchor that ships are being torpedoed with- in a British port.

DALARO'S LOSS

London, To-day. It is now learned that the 4,000-ton Swedish ship Dalaro-whose loss was reported in the "China Mall" yester- day-was torpedoed and then shelled by a U-boat.

The Mackay Radio the British steamer Sultan Star (12,- Belgian trawler.-Reuter. 000 tons) was torpedoed ht 4.42

Her crew of 17 are safe on board a

(G.M.T.) yesterday afternoon.

The report added that the crew were abandoning ship-Reuter.

"BRITISH TRIUMPH" RESCUES

London, To-day."

Five men are belleved to be miss- ing from the London tanker "Bri- tish Triumph," of 8,501 tons, which capsized after an explosion in the North Sea.

Twenty-one members of the crew were landed at an East Coast port and 21 at a second port.

The 16-year-old wireless opera. tor told how twice in two months

ho

had bean rescued from oil tankers sunk by explosions. It was his second voyage on a Bri- tish boat and on each occasion he had been shipwrecked.

On December 2 he was assistant wireless operator on the tanker San Calisto, which struck a mine and sank. He received an internal injury neces- sitating an operation.

He had only Just recovered when he joined the British Triumph. This tanker was attacked by enemy aircraft In Great Yarmouth roadstead a fort-

night ago. Reuter.

SUNK BY SHELLFIRE

London, To-day.

Another neutral ship has been sunk by a U-boat, although she was carry- ing cargo for a neutral port.

She was a Danish ship of 5,000 tons, bound for Denmark from Morocco. She was stopped by a U-boat 80 miles from Norway on Tuesday morning.'

When the crew had taken to the boats, the ship was sunk by shell- fire:

A British 'plane which arrived soon afterwards directed a Norwegian ship

to the rescue of the crew-Reuter.

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Two Tankers Sunk

London, To-day.

Two British tankers were lost in Sea yesterday. They are

FRENCHMAN DECORATED

Paris, To-day.

and

130

During the first 140 days of war she steamed about 25,000 miles has been at sea approximately days.

Taking her part in scouring the seas for German raiders she has only had the opportunity of using her anti- aircraft batteries and the single casualty was a cat washed over board in high seas.

out warning-Reuter.

AMERICAN SHIP THROUGH IN QUICK TIME

London, To-day. The Arst U.S.A. ship with a cargo completely covered by navicerts has Unfortunately for the German pro- pagandists the story of the sinking of arrived at an Allied contraband con- Repulse is not confined to broadcasts. trol base with a mixed cargo destin- ed for Italy and Turkey and WES The 1940 edition of the German naval pocketbook states that on Octo-held up only two and a half hours. ber 14 "Repulse was destroyed by U-boats in Scapa Flow at the same time as Royal Oak was sunk."

Her 32,000 ton presence is ample

A French liaison officer has been demonstration of the falsity of the given the Croix de Guerre for action with a British patrol in Man's Land.

when the British officer was

his entry which, however, is in keeping No with the broadcast from Koenigsberg on February 7 which announced the He was attached to the patrol and sinking of the steamship Oregon. while trying to silence German ma-

killed This ship arrived safely in Lisbon as the German broadcaster to Portugal chine-guns he took command of the from Zeesen announced on February party and brought the men back safe-11, possibly having forgotten

previous claim.-British Wireless. ly to the British lines.-Reuter,

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