U.S. LOSSES AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 87, 14 April 1942, Page 6

U.S. LOSSES AT SEA

127 SHIPS TO DATE

NEW YORK, April 13,

The Navy Department announced the torpedoing of a medium-sized Norwegian vessel off the Atlantic coast on April. 7. Forty-nine members of the crew landed at Norfolk,- Virginia. One is missing.

The sinking of this vessel brings the grand total of vessels lost in Atlantic waters from Canada to the Caribbean to 127 since the United States ' entry into the war. >

Survivors of ah American cargo and passenger vessel which was torpedoed on March 29 landed at Lewes, Delaware. ■■ ■ ■;■■ • >■.

; It is revealed that one of the passengers who, is presumed lost was the Yugoslav General Milo Djukanovic. The Yugoslav Legation in Washington said that General Djukanovic was en route to the United States in order to rally volunteers for a Yugoslav military Unit to fight with the Allied forces in the Near East. General Djukanovic recently commanded Yugoslav forces in South' Africa. When the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia he was the asistant commander of the very important naval base at Boka. General Djukanovic refused to capitulate, and remained at his post until he was forced to escape in a little training submarine to Greece.