SHIPS DESTROYED

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1939, Page 8

SHIPS DESTROYED

WHERE IS THE “BREMEN”? u Boats on Atlantic i BELEM (Mexico), September .6. A North German Lloyd motor-ship is reported to have been midAtlantic. It is apparently the thrrd shin to which the Ministry of Infor mation in London referred in earlier Ca AnothS S German ship sunk was the Carl Fritzen, of 6593 tons, reported bound from Schiedam, Holland, Canada or Buenos Aires. The crew is safe. Several British ships have been attacked by German submarines. It is officially stated that British warships had attacked German submarines. One British vessel which was lost was the Bosnia, of 2407 tons, a Cunard Line cargo vessel. The crew was rescued. The master, Captain Poole, said the ship was damaged by gunlire from the submarine, and was then sunk by a torpedo. The survivors from the Bosnia will land at Lisbon to-night from a Norwegian tanker. • , .. The Admiralty states that it should be realised it is not always desirable to publish details of destruction or damage to enemy submarines, therefore, it should not be assumed that no successes had been achieved. (Received September 8, 3. a.m.) LISBON, September 7.

Thirty-two members of the crew and passengers from the “Bosnia” have landed here from the Norwegian freighter. They expressed gratitude for the manner in which they were treated by their Norwegian and Portuguese rescuers. COPENHAGEN, September b.

A German collier has been refloated, being saved from internment. A German torpedo-boat is stranded at Fredericia. It is stated that an unknown ship, sunk near Malmo, in the Baltic, on Monday night by a mine, was the Latvian steamer Imanta, owned by the Latvian Government. The crew of 20 men and two women are stated to be drowned. NEW ORLEANS September 6. The Board of Trade announces that shipping sources have “positively located a submarine off Key West (Florida)” presumably German. SUGGESTED BRAZILIAN REFUGE. NEW YORK, September 6. A Berlin message states: It is reported that the liner Bremen has arrived safely at an unidentified neutral port. A North American News Agency despatch from Paris, by Walter Duranty, says expert circles express the opinion that the Bremen is already equipped as a commerce raider in the North Atlantic. She probably dashed for shelter in the Fiord of Greenland or Labrador, where she took on guns, ammunition, and crew without trouble from another waiting vessel, with which she had a rendezvous. There is a possibility also that she will have three or four light planes which may aid in the destruction of commerce, and act as scouts. (Received September 8, 1.25 a.m.) MONTREAL, September 7. The Boston freighter “Selmacity” reports that the German liner "Bremen” was proceeding southwards near Sans Salvador at midnight, on August 31. This course would have taken her between Haiti and Cuba and suggests that she might have taken refuge in a Brazilian port. WASHINGTON, September 6. Mr. Roosevelt has placed the Panama Canal under full military control. Canadian sources have suggested that the Bremen may be lying off Newfoundland, as a fuel and supply ship for submarines and aircraft detailed to bombard Canada. N.Z. SURVIVOR OF ATHENIA. NEW PLYMOUTH. September 7. A cable received late this afternoon by Misses P. and R. Whitton, New Plymouth, said that Mrs C. E. Tomlinson (Auckland) safely landed at Glasgow after the sinking of the Athenia. Mrs Tomlinson was formerly Miss M. J. Whitton, of New Plymouth, and was returning with her husband to New Zealand after a tour of the Continent. GERMAN PROPAGANDA. (Received September 8, 2.12 a.m.) LONDON, September 7., A German short-wave broadcast declared that it had been proved beyond doubt that a British submarine sank the liner Athenia on the orders of Mr. Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty). ANTI-GERMAN FEELING. • ' IN CENTRAL EUROPE. ' VIENNA, September 6. ' The Mayor, admitting riots by Vienna women, stated that sporadic breaches of discipline have occurred. The authorities will act ruthlessly against breakers of discipline. BUCHAREST, September 6. It is reported that Hungarians at Huszt and other places in Ruthenia demonstrated against Germany, because of general rationing. PARIS, September 6. Officials from the French Embassy in Berlin, arriving in Paris, said there were signs of acute nervousness and uneasiness among civilian Germans in the capital, shortly before they left Berlin.

THE CZECHS. WASHINGTON, September ,6. A Chicago message states that Dr. Benes has notified Britain and France: “The Czechoslovaks consider ourselves as being also at war with the German military forces. We will march with your people, until the final victory and liberation of our Fatherland.” LONDON, September 6 Mr Greenwood, in a. broadcast address to Czechosolakia, said: “Your hour of liberation ife near. Your tragedy, has opened the eyes of the world to the cruel injustice now’imposed upon you, which must be righted. The British Labour Party declares that the Czechs and Slovaks, now under the iron heel of Herr Hitler, shall soon be free.” '