ATLANTIC CONVOY ATTACKED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 121, 15 February 1941, Page 11

ATLANTIC CONVOY ATTACKED

Nazis Claim Success

LARGE SCALE ACTION REPORTED

(Uy Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright.)

LONDON. February 13,

'Hie Berlin radio claims that German warships attacked a British convoy west of Portugal and san--13 large armed merchantmen heavily laden with war supplies. It is admitted in London that German surface ships attacked a convoy in the Atlantic. A spokesman in Berlin said this a large-scale operation in which surface ships, submarines, and aeroplanes took part. The vessels sunk i" chl ‘Kd several big liners. The convoy uas completely scattered.

Home Fleet’s Mission.

correspondents accompanied pouetfiil units of the Home Fleet, including battleships, on a dasli of 1000 miles on into the North Atlantic on a mission which was so secret that o il} three persons in the Heel knew the object, when they sailed. The correspondents were not pm nutted to describe the mission beyond saving that it was completely successful. They did not sight the enemy m any form during three days and nig s < sea. although they repeatedly o< 1 - hauled ships which were belie (d to be enemy vessels, but turned out to be British auxiliary cruisers. The crews ate and slept al ll '" r action stations the whole time. He farthest point of the sweep was a mysterious lighthouse behind i < high snow-clad mountains could bt seen.