U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1942, Page 3

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

MORE SINGINGS U.S. Transport Problem [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.' (Rec. 10.45.) WASHINGTON, June 2. The U.S. Navy has announced the torpedoing of a medium-sized United States merchantman in Atlantic waters. Twenty-five members of her crew are missing. A small British merchantman has also been torpedoed on the Atlantic. One member of her crew was killed. . ....

Mr D. Nelson has established a special Air Cargo Committee to study the possibilities of increasing the use of large-scale long-range ’planes capable of carrying substantial cargoes of al] kinds and of transporting war materials overseas.

U.S. TO BUY MORE SHIPS. (Rec. 10.45.) WASHINGTON, June 2. President Roosevelt has sent to Congress a message underlining the importance of . the nation’s transportation Mr Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate eleven hundred million dollars for the acquisition and the operation of merchant vessels to carry American arms against the Axis Powers. At the same time Mr Roosevelt has requested another two hundred million dollars for a supplementary 1942 naval appropriation, which, it. is believed, will be used to Ipuild more destroyers, corvettes and minesweepers immediately so as to help to protect a new merchant fleet. AUXILIARY NAVAL VESSELS. (Rec. 11.0.) WASHINGTON, June 2. Chairman Vinson has introduced a new Bill in the House Naval Affairs Committee for authorising the construction of five hundred thousand tons of auxiliary vessels for the Navy, including tankers, tenders and supply ships. Assistance to U-Boats ARRESTS MADE IN U.S. AND MEXICO. (Rec. 12.30) NEW YORK, June 2. The New York police . arrested eleven men charged with wholesale theft of petrol fuel oil. The police Laid the accused were involved in supplying fuel to Fjxis submarines. A report from Mexico states that over forty Axis aliens have been teiken custody between Tampico and Ndevolaredo as members of a nation-wide spy ring advising submarine confmanders.