U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1943, Page 2

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

ACTION BY BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 17. The Government News Agency announced that the Brazilian Air Force sunk a U-boat, bringing the total destroyed by air to eight. ft was previously announced that the Brazilian-American Navies sunk five others in this area.

German Ships Sunk E.O.W. RUGBY, May 17. r l?he Admiralty states that two more enemy vessels, which attempted to break through the Allied blockade-. have been scuttled after interceplion by British warships. One German armed ship, the “Silva-' plana,” 4,793 tons, was inward bound from the Far East with a valuable cargo of rubber and tin. She was sighted by the cruiser “Adventure”, about 200 miles off Cane Finisterre, and ordered to stop. Within a few minutes, and before the “Silvaplana” had lost way, her crew proceeded to abandon the ship. Flames enveloped her bridge, and a series of explosions rent, her hull. She heeled over and sank stern first. The ship’s company were rescued. The other blockade-runner, the German motor ship, “Regensburg,” 8,068 tons, also heavily laden, inward bound from the Far East, was intercepted between Greenland and Iceland by 'the cruiser: “Glasgow”. Warning shots were followed by signs of’ panic aboard. The enemy signalled “I stop,” but soon afterwards scuttling charges were tired, and owing to the heavy weather and icy water, only six of the 75 personnel were rescued. BALTIC MINE SINKINGS. STOCKHOLM, May 17. Swedish seamen at Malmo report that the German merchantman “Gneisenau,” 18,160 tons, hit a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea at the end of April. Mines also sank two German tugboats while towing a dock- late in April. Forty were killed.