SUBMARINE PACK

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 99, 21 January 1942, Page 7

SUBMARINE PACK

Enemy Hunted Off U.S. East Coast WIDE OPERATION Four Merchantmen Hit In Five Days ('By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received January 20, 8.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 19. The Navy announced that the Standard Oil Company tanker Allen Jackson was torpedoed and sunk off the North Carolina coast. Thirteen survivors of the crew of 35 were rescued; the remainder were apparenty drowned or burnt to death. This is the third merchantman sunk near the American east coast within five days. The Navy later announced that the United States tanker Malay was damaged by a submarine off the east coast. The vessel is approaching the safety of an Atlantic port. No information is as yet available on the extent of the damage, but the crew is believed to be safe. Survivors of the Alan Jackson today told grim stories of their struggles to escape from the. flames after spending six terrifying hours in an open boat battling to keep clear of the suction ot the burning, sinking ship, from which oil flames spread rapidly. This latest sinking has brought the entire resources of the army and navy coastal units into focus to find the Axis raiders, which are believed to be operating in a pack ranging up arid down the coast from Canada to Florida. „ The survivors of the I anama freighter who were landed yesterday at a port on the east coast ot Canada said that enemy submarines were “almost as thick as catfish” in the waters where their ship was attacked.