U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 18 June 1942, Page 1

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Three Torpedoings TWO WATCHED FROM VIRGINIA RESORTS. (Rec. 7.40) WASHINGTON, June 16. A message form Norfolk, Virginia states: A submarine torpedoed two large United States merchantmen within the view of thousands oi persons at a Virginia beach resort. The crowd watched U.S. bombers, a Navy blimp, and also half a dozen surface vessels attack the submarine. One merchantman sank. _The other was towed to port. The fate of the submarine has not been announced. One man was killed by the explosion of a torpedo. There were 197 survivors landed safely. The U.S. Navy has announced that a medium-sized United States merchantman was torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday. Four gunners and eleven seamen Were killed. Thirty seamen were rescued, after swimming for eight hours, clinging to bits of wreckage. V-i Rio De Janiero newspaper, “Oglobo” says: Spanish merchantmen have been aiding Axis submarines operating in the south Atlantic. An instance was that in which a Spanish ship, the Aldecoa, supplied fuel 'to an Axis submarine on the high seas. The. Aldecoa arrived in Rio De Janeiro on May 27. She is now haying difficulty iii obtaining fuel from American oil companies for the “return voyage.” The newspaper asserts that a large number of Spanish ships are plying between Bunos A’-res and European ports, and also that many former Axis ships now fly the Spanish flag.