U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 5 June 1942, Page 5

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Three More Sinkings

WASHINGTON, June 3.

The Navy announced that a me-dium-sized British merchantman was torpedoed in the Atlantic. The survivors were landed at east coast ports. A iarge British merchantman was torpedoed in the' Caribbean Sea sev- : oral weeks ago. The survivors (were landed. ' . , I Survivors from a British ship 'sunk off Bermuda on May 20, said i the submarine fired two torpedoes, and shelled the crew in lifeboats, killing six. BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOED. OFF BRAZIL. (Rec. 11.40.) LONDON, June 3. A message received from Brazil to-day states: Forty survivors of the I British merchantman “Charlbury have arrived there. They reported that then? ship was torpedoed and sunk on May 28, three hundred miles off the Brazilian coast, near Fernando Noronha. Two men were killed, by the torpedo explosion. AERIAL TRANSPORT. RUGBY, June 3. The British Press gives prominence to the possible advantages of the development of air transport by the Allied Nations in comments on the shipping position, and the arrangements . being made by Mr.Lyt.telton for closer British and Amer:- ! can co-operation in production. ImI provement in shipping is predicted but one paper comments that attention to air transort is encouraging, because the scarcity of shipping will remain.