AMUR NEUTRAL VESSEL TORPEDOED.
ATTACK BY U-BOAT.
German Steamer Sinks In
Swedish Minefield.
BRITISH, GREEK SHIPS LOST
United Truss Association.—Copyright
(Received 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, January 18.
A U-boat torpedoed and shelled Uie Norwegian steamer Enid (1140 tons) off the north-east coast of Scotland. A trawler rescued eight of the crew, while the remaining eight landed in their own small boat.
The British steamer Cairncross (i>494 tons), struck a mine off the west coast of England in the darkness last evening. A warship picked up the crew of 48, after the seamen had spent three hours in tliei; own lifeboats.
The Greek steamer Asteria (3313 tons) sank after striking a mine in the North .Sea. Eleven of the crew and an English pilot arc feared to have been drowned. Eleven survivors and one body were landed after 15 hours in a small boat.
A Copenhagen message states that the German steamer August Thyssen (2342 tons) was sunk in a Swedish minefield off the Aaland Island*. The steamer tried to traverse the minefield without a pilot. The crew took to the boats, ami are drifting southwards through masses of broken ice. A Swedish warship is trying to reach them.
Fourteen of the crew ar o missing from <he Norwegian steamer Fagerheim (1000 tons), which was torpedoed in the Bay of Bi.-vny. The others weru picked up t.y a Greek steamer and landed at V igo, Spain, where all were sent to hospital.
Jitter Oslo reports indicate that 14 of the ckcw wen- killed. Five of the six rescued were injured.
Four of the crew of the Belgian steamer Josephine Charlotte, of 3422 tons, which struck a mine and sank off the southeast coast of England, are missing. Forty others were landed and five were sent to hospital.
SERVICES TO INDIA
United Dutch Line Suspending
Its Sailings.
25 BIG SHIPS AFFECTED
(Received 11 a.m.)
AMSTERDAM, January 18.
The Inited Dutch Shipping Company intends to suspend its. services to Africa and India, placing out of commission 2o large ships.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 7
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