SEAMEN CAPTURED

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 4, 29 September 1939, Page 10

SEAMEN CAPTURED

Delivery Demanded From Rescue Ship

NAZI WARSHIP’S ACT

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received September 28, 8.30 p.m.) STOCKHOLM. September 28. A German destroyer stopped the Swedish motor-ship Kronprinessan Margareta off Gothenburg and demanded delivery of 11 members of the crew of the sunken Fleetwood trawler Caldew whom the Kronprinessan Margareta rescued in the North Sea on September 26.

The captain had no alternative but'to hand the men over. The destroyer then turned round and disappeared.

REPORT CONFIRMED Royal Sceptre’s Survivors (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 28, 7.5 p.m.j RUGBY, September 2<. The Ministry of Information confirms the report that 32 survivors of the Royal Sceptre were landed at Bahia by the Browning. The Ministry explains that as no wireless message was received and as almost three weeks bad passed without news it had to be assumed that the crew of the Royal Sceptre had perished. Relatives’ inquiries, therefore, had been answered to that effect. The nine wounded members of the crew, four of whom are in hospital, are remaining at Bahia and the rest of the crew is proceeding to Rio de Janeiro. HAZELSIDE’S SINKING German Version Denied i British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. September 26. A German news agency report, professedly based on survivors’ stories, that the submarine which sank the Newcastle freighter Hazelside (4646 tons) signalled the vessel to heave to and later tired warning shots over the steamer’s bows, is flatly contradicted iu an interview with some of the survivors published in the British Press. The German account admits that one of the Hazelside's boats was destroyed by shells, but omits ail reference to the casualties caused. VOYAGE TO INDIA Submarine Attacks Fail LONDON, September 27. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent reports from Simla that two vessels carrying 2000 military and civil officers from England reached India safely after two submarine attacks, the first in the Atlantic, where the escort drove off and sank two. submarines, and the second in the Mediterranean.