SAFE CONVOY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 299, 30 September 1939, Page 5

SAFE CONVOY.

GRAIN CARRIED TO BRITAIN. FIFTEEN SHIPS FROM CANADA. ! NEW YORK, September 29. The Montreal correspondent of the “New York Times” says that up to the present the consorship has barred from newspapers one of the greatest Canadian stories of the war —how the senior Dominion is supplying the Motherland with resources with which to defeat Nazism.

At regular intervals convoys are leaving the Atlantic coast- escorting vessels laden with wheat, metal manufactures, goods and other products, every ship arriving safely at British ports. The grain movement is perhaps the most important. In the first week of war wheat and maize from the great lake ports piled up in Montreal and jammed the elevators. This made it necessary for the laden lake steamers to anchor in the river to await unloading. • However, Britain quickly organised a convoy system, and it was learned to-day that the first successful convoy had arrived in Britain. It consisted of 15 freighters loaded with a total of 500,000 bushels o i grain. There have been others since. It is reliably' stated that none was menaced by U-boats. The Germans find it more profitable, according to naval authorities, to attack individual ships. An assault on a convoy would he almost fatal. It is understood that the' Germans are quite aware of the situation and give -the convoys a wide berth. It is learned that both passenger and freight ships sailing from New York are taking advantage of the; system, picking up convoys a' few, miles out. ' ;

SWEDISH VESSEL SUNK. U-BOAT ATTACKS SOVIET SHIP. LONDON, September 28. • The Swedish, cargo yessel; Nylgnd, of 3325 tons, has been sunk outside Norwegian territorial waters. The Norwegian Admiralty announced that the vessel was seen to come to a standstill. Half an hour later an explosion was heard. , Twenty-nine members of the crew took to the boats. .They were towed by a Norwegian torpedo-boat to Stavanger. A further Oslo message says that that vessel was sunk by a German submarine. . German trawlers, it was stated, passed the crowded lifeboats without giving aid. It is assumed that the vessel _ was torpedoed as mines were not likely to be found in that area. Oslo reports that a German submarine was seen moving eastward along the coast of Norway. Explosions were heard at sea, bijt it is not known whether they came from the submarine or .whether the Norwegian coastguard had fired. Moscow radio reports state that the freighter Poneer was attacked by a submarine and was beached on the Estonian coast. ‘ Soviet warships rescued the crew.