ELEVENTH VICTIM

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20677, 30 January 1942, Page 2

ELEVENTH VICTIM

U-BOATS OFF U.S.A. CANADIAN LINES LOST SEARCH BY AEROPLANES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.! (Reed. Jan. 30, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 29. A San Juan message states that the torpedoed vessel from which 250 passengers and members of the crew are missing, has been identified as the 8000-ton Canadian National Steamship liner Lady Hawkins, which was en route from Halifax to Bermuda when she was attacked without warning before dawn on January 19. It was the eleventh ship to be attacked off the east coast of the United States and suffered very heavy loss of life. The survivors were picked up and landed at San Juan by the United States steamer Coamo. An Ottawa report states that 33 survivors from the crew of 50 in a torpedoed British tanker were landed there by a British freighter after 33 hours in an open lifeboat. The tanker was the third U-boat victim in the North Atlantic in 24 hours. The others were a Norwegian tanker, and a. Greek freighter ... A .Port Arthur message states that a complete black-out of a-100-mile strip of the Texas coast has been ordered after a naval announcement that two German submarines were probably operating off south Texas. One submarine was seen lying on the surface submerged after a second submarine four miles to the eastward had released a warning smoke bomb. The second submarine then submerged. A patrol of 21 naval planes is seeking the vessels.