ON THE SEAS
r OPERATIONS OFF GREENLAND. (Rec. 10.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, December 14. Four United States Coast Guard cutters operating in Arctic waters ' smashed a determined Nazi effort to establish bases in Greenland. A Navy communique says that the Coast Guard sank a German armed trawler, | ■ captured another and found a third j abandoned. Sixty prisoners were taken and a radio station captured. German bomber attacks were beaten off in a ■ series pf actions lasting from July to late in October. The climax occurred
when the Coast Guard/ captured a ; German armed trawler with 64 officers and crew. The vessel had a fine radio, i the most modefn meteorological instruments and sufficient food for a year. MERCHANT NAVY LOSSES. LONDON, December 14. The Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of War Transport, Sir Gilmour Jenkins, revealed that the Merchant Navy casualties, to the end of October were 30,000 dead, 4000-Jftken prisoner and 1000 incapacitated.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 December 1944, Page 6
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