BRITISH CONVOY
ATTACK BY GERMANS
SHIPS CLAIMED SUNK
WEST OF PORTUGAL
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Received February 14, 12.40 p.m.)
LONDON, February 13
The Berlin radio claimed that German warships attacked a British convoy west of Portugal and sank 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 that this was a large-scale operation in which surface ships, submarines, and aeroplanes took part. The vessels sunk included several big liners. The convoy was completely scattered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 7
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