MORE ALLIED LOSSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 17, 20 July 1942, Page 5

MORE ALLIED LOSSES

EIGHT SHIPS SUNK

WASHINGTON, July 18. The loss of a number of Allied merchantmen as the result of attacks by Axis submarines is announced by the Navy Department. ■ A large United States merchantman was torpedoed in the Caribbean with the loss of five lives. While 46 survivors drifted in a lifeboat they heard an explosion in another ship. They were later joined by a lifeboat containing 15 survivors. Both lifeboats were picked up by another merchantman, which was torpedoed the same | night. A Dutch ship was torpedoed in the Caribbean in broad daylight with the loss of two members of the crew. ! A small British merchantman ' was \ sunk off the coast of South America, three members of the crew losing their lives. | A Japanese submarine torpedoed an American ship in the Indian Ocean. Six lives were lost. ! A medium-sized United States vessei | was bombed and shelled and so sunk I of* the southern tip of India. Twehtyfour of the crew were killed. Two Japanese planes set fire to the ship, and although the crew succeeded in controlling the blaze, a ' Japanese cruiser came on. the scene and sank the vessel. A medium-sized' United States merchantman was torpedoed in the South Atlantic. All the crew were saved i Nineteen are missing from a , small | British ship which was sunk in the j South Atlantic. I A medium-sized United States ! merchantman was torpedoed and shelled on June 28 by a submarine several hundred miles off the northern I coast of South America. Thirty-nine survivors reached an east coast port Three were killed in the engine-room when the torpedo struck, and five others died from burns in a lifeboat The U-boat commander took the vessel's captain and chief engineer aboard the submarine and delivered an impudent lecture.