U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 18 February 1942, Page 5

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Three Tankers Sunk IN DUTCH WEST INDIES. (Rec 7.45.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. It is reported from Willemstad, in Curacao, that ■ an Axis submarine has torpedoed three oil tankers and has also shelled the' Standard Oil Corporation’s oil refinery at Aruba. The refinery was only slightly damaged.

ANOTHER TANKER TORPEDOED.

(Rec. 12.50.) WILLEMSTAD, Feb. 17. A fourth Standard Oil Corporation tanker was also torpedoed, and badly damaged, but she did not sink. The United States has only recently sent troops to these Dutch islands to protect the oil installations. The refinery there is the largest in the world. It had recently stepped up its octane output.

CARIBBEAN SHIPPING WARNED.

(Rec. 1.30.) WILLEMSTAD, Feb. 17. The United Press learns, from Aruba, that aeroplanes have taken off to warn fourteen Allied oil tankers that are at present in the Caribbean waters, to make for port immediately. All tanker sailings have also been cancelled until the United States Navy and Air Force has cleared up the region of submarines. General Andrews has further reported that the total loss in the Aruba attack were: One tanker sunk, one tanker damaged, and 24 members of the crews are missing and dead. A U-BOAT PROBABLY DESTROYED. (Rec. 7.55.) NEW YORK, Feb. 16. The U.S. Army announced that an enemy submarine off the Atlantic coast was probably destroyed early this month by an Army patrol, bomber, which attacked while the submarine was on the surface during a rainstorm, and loosed several bombs. Later, an oil patch appeared on the water.

This was the first official account of counter-action against the Axis submarines operating off the Atlantic coast.

MORE U-BOATS SUNK.

(Rec. 1.10.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Lieutenant-General Andrews, Commander of the United States Caribbean defences, reported, upon his return to Balboa from Aruba, that some submarines engaged in the attacks on Standard Oil tankers had been sunk by American and Dutch ’planes.

U-BOAT AT NEW YORK HARBOUR

(Rec. 10.40.) LONDON, Feb. 17.

The Berlin Official News Agency released the ,story of a cruise by the U-boat commander, Lieutenant Kapitan Hardegan, who has claimed to have reached the “entrance” of New York. He said: “We were amazed as we looked on the city. We saw. Long Island’s piers, with the ceaseless coming and going of the New York harbour craft. We sank ten ships, totalling sixty-six thousand tons, off the American coast, including the tanker “Nordess.” The United States Navy Department admitted the loss of the “Nordess” on January 15.