NEUTRAL SHIPS SUNK
SWEDEN'S HEAVY LOSSES
GERMAN SUBMARINES ACTIVE
(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 4, 9 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. A U-boat torpedoed the Swedish steamer Svartoen (2475 tons) off the north Scottish coast. Twenty members of the crew are missing. A lifeboat picked up 11 from a raft. A message from Bergen says that 15 survivors of the Swedish vessel Lars Magnus Trozelli (1955 tons) have arrived there. They say they were torpedoed without warning 20 miles from Blyth. Seven were killed. From Paris it is reported that another Swedish ship, the Kiruna (5480 tons) was sending out SOS calls,
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22910, 5 January 1940, Page 7
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