GERMAN WAY
TWO SHIPS SCUTTLED
CAUGHT IN THE PACIFIC
"NO GOOD TO THEM"
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Received April 8. 12.30 p.m.) TORONTO. April' 7.
The Minister of the Navy. Mr. Angus Macdonald. disclosed today that a Canadian armed merchant cruiser had intercepted I wo German ships, ihe Hermonthis and the Munchen. in the Pacific Ocean, and these .ships, in the. good German way, scuttled themselves.
Speaking in an address to the Service Club he said that the incident occurred not very long ago, but he could not give the date or exact location. When the Canadian sailors found they were unable to extinguish the fires the vessels were sunk. They are now lying at the bottom of the Pacific.
"While they are no good to us they are no good to Germany either," he said.
The Munchen and Hermonthis, two modern motorships of about 5000 or 6000 tons, sailed from Callao (Peru) on March 31 without papers. Four days later 30 members of the crews reached Casrria in a sailing boat, reporting that they had set the ships on fire and abandoned them 200 miles from Callao.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1941, Page 7
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