SUNK BY BOMBS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20259, 29 May 1940, Page 8

SUNK BY BOMBS

BRITISH TRAWLERS FOUR MERCHANTMEN TWO GERMAN VESSELS SUCCESS OF CONVOYS (Klcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Rccd. May 29. 2 p.m.) LONDON. May 28. The Admiralty announced that His Majesty’s trawlers, Melbourne and Cape Passaro, were sunk by bombs. Four ratings from the Cape Passare were killed. There were no casualties in the Melbourne. The Norwegians sank the German steamer Rosario, of 5-IC7 tons, and the Kattegat, of 8700 tons, which is a tanker, making the German losses to May 20 830,000 tons. The Germans in the week to May 20 destroyed 4G.301 tons, including four British and Allied ships totalling 30,181 tons. To Wednesday, 21.511 British. Allied and neutral ships have been in British ships convoyed totalled 3100. with the convoys, with the loss of 31 ships, a proportion of one in G 94. Neutral loss of three, a proportion of one in 1033. 75,000,000 Tons Convoyed The total tonnage of ships convoyed safely to their destination is over 75,000,000, representing a cargocarrying capacity of over 112,000,000 tons, Naval experts, commenting on the claim by the German naval chief, Admiral Lutzow. that mines had been laid off the coast of South Africa by a commerce raider, while dismissing the further claim that eight ships and two mine-sweepers have been lost in this area as being totally untrue, agree that the actions of commerce raiders, either by minelaying, torpedo, bomb or gunfire, can cause considerable annoyance and inconvenience, but can have no lasting effect on the conduct of the war. The issue of the present war will depend on the supplies of raw material and the power that controls the trade routes will win in the end. Many campaigns have been won and lost at a scene many hundreds of miles from the battle area.