NAZI AIR RAIDS ON SHIPS RENEWED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1940, Page 7

NAZI AIR RAIDS ON SHIPS RENEWED.

OFF BRITISH COAST. Little Success Reported In Latest Actions. WARSHIPS ATTACK U-BOATS. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON*, February 19. Enemy aeroplanes twice attacked shipping .'lO miles from the north-east coast this afternoon. A Norfolk lifeboat put out to sea. There were other attacks off Lincolnshire and Suffolk. People in south-east Essex heard machine-gun fire. The Norwegian steamer Hop (1331 ton*), bound for Tyne from Bergen, is believed to have been lost with a crew of 17. A number of trawlers encountered enemy aircraft off the north-east coast of Scotland yesterday. The enemy is believed to have attacked, but the result is not known. Twel»e German aeroplanes sweated on trawlers in the Xorth Sea off Scotland, repeatedly machine-gunning their decks and then raining bombs on them, says the 'Daily Mail." The raiders made off when a warship approached. Naval circles in Paris announce- that British and French naval vessels attacked several U-boats yesterday. It is impossible to say what was* the result of the attacks. Fishing boats from La Coruna, Spain, picked up survivors from two of the latest victims of the. German war against neutral ships. The crew of 20 of the Greek steamer Elli (1114 tons), bound for Greece laden with coal from Cardiff, took to the boats after a torpedo hit the ship. The U-boat then sank her with a second torpedo. Twenty-two of the 29 members of the crew of the Spanish steamer Banderas (2140 tons) perished after an explosion sank the ship six miles from Cape Vila no. Two of the survivors were seriously injured.