RUTHLESS ATTACKS.
THE SUBMARINE WARFARE. CASE OF NORWEGIAN TANKER. \ . " ” LONDON, November 16. The ruthless character which the German war on neutral merchant shipping has assumed has been illustrated in • the torpedoing last Sunday without warning of the Norwegian tanker, Arne Ivjode, by a German Üboat. In this case no attempt wa& made on the pai*b_of■ -the U-boat to save the crew of tile torpedoed ship, although the weather was bad and its position was far from land. The crew of the Arne Kjode took to the boats,' but it was not until after more s than two days that 23 men in one boat were picked up. They were suffering severely from exposure. Twenty hours la tor 12 more members of the crew were picked up, but five are still missing.
From evidence obtained.it is clear that the U-boat could not possibly have taken the Arno Kjode for anything hut what she was —a neutral tanker. The action of the submarine constitutes a brutal disregard of the rules of' submarine warfare to which the Nazi Government, pledged itself.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 33, 18 November 1939, Page 5
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