MARINE WARFARE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 303, 20 September 1939, Page 10

MARINE WARFARE

Supplies From Canada

SYSTEM OF CONTROL

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Sept. 19, .10.20 p.m.) LONDON. September 19.

It is stated officially in Paris that the French have stink their first German submarine since the beginning of the war.

Ottawa reports that a board has been established to control the movements of shipping and introduce a system ot sailing licences with the object of ensuring a constant supply of ships to transport supplies from Canada to Britain.

’The Berlin radio announced that a German submarine, which torpedoed a British tug. the Neptunia, claims so far to have sunk 30 British ships totalling 190,000 tons. The commander of the U-boat gave the captain and crew of the Neptunia bottles of brandy, cigarettes, and flares before he sank the tug, which tried to outdistance the submarine 360 miles from land. The captain an'd the crew of seven landed at a British port at the weekend.

The captain revealed that after capturing the tug the commander of the submarine went aboard. The captain remarked, “This is a bit of bard luck,” whereupon the commander of the U-boat replied in English: “Never mind; it’s your turn now; it may be ours next.” The Britishers then lowered the lifeboats and the tug was scut to the bottom.

The Ministry of Information states that the captain of the Inverliffey, which was sunk on September 11, pointed out to the commander of the German submarine that the ship was flying the flag of a neutral country, Ireland, to which the commander replied. that it was carrying contraband cargo so he would sink her. A British warship today landed 33 Germans at Falkland Island for internment. They were part of the crew of the Carl Frizzen, which the Royal Navy dealt with on the day after war was declared.

The ship’s cat and 13 members of the crew of the Rudyard Kipling, which was sunk last week, have arrived. Ten were taken aboard tt submarine and brought to within five miles of Ireland. They were then put. aboard the trawler's boat, towed by the submarine, the commander of which asked for a supply of fish and fresh bread. He told the cook that they had not baked any.

Thirteen survivors from the Brn.niden, which was sunk on September 16, have reached England from France. The captain, engineer and fireman were killed. A survivor said the explosion occurred without warning. It rent a gaping hole in the side and the boilers blew up. Two lifeboats were smashed, and the survivors escaped in the third boat aud were taken aboard a lightship. Mrs. Rose Griffin, of Toronto, died at Greenock yesterday from injuries received when the Athenia was sunk.

A Rotterdam message says that the Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, with 1300 passengers, is held up by its crew striking for increased wages due to the war dangers, which the company has refused. It. is announced iu Washington that the Government will seize ships of belligerents which are fraudulently traus-

ferred to the American registry. The six merchantmen whose crews refused to leave New York unless wartime concessions were granted are still held up and the stalemate continues. Sixty-one members of the erew of one ship have been charged with refusing to obey the master’s orders. Two gave evidence that they believed the ship was loaded with some munitions.