WARFARE AT SEA

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1940, Page 5

WARFARE AT SEA

GERMAN CLAIMS

OF U-BOAT SUCCESSES.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, Dec. 4

A German communique has claimed that .U-boats attacked a convoy which was eu route to Britain on Monday, and that the U-boats sank tile escorting auxiliary cruiser, the “Caledonia,” and also fifteen merchantmen, totalling over 110,000 tons. ..“.Another U-boat, the communique states, sank two freighters, including the “Victor Ross,” thus making a total of 160,000 toils sunk on Sunday The British Admiralty, however, pointed out that H.M.S. “Scotsman,” which was forme? !v the liner “Caledonia,” was admitted to have been sunk on June 14 last. ' " Then the German News Agency issued an urgent correction to the communique, substituting an auxiliary cruiser for the “Caledonia.” The German News Agency has also stated that the appearance of Gorman surface naval units on the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific Ocean is forcing Britain to take new securitj measures

The correspondent of the British United Press reports, from Berlin, that a neutral source estimates that there now are at least one hundred U-boats operating against British ship Ping.

An Italian communique states I hat an Italian submarine sank the ship “Lilian. Muller,” a. British vessel of 4 .866 tons in the Atlantic on November 18.

CAPTAIN’S ESCAPE

FROM PRISON SHIP

(Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) MONTREAL, December 4.

Captain C. Arundel I, who lias arrived at an East Canadian port to take over command of a freighter, described his rescue by a British submarine from a Nazi prison ship off the French coast. Arundcll commanded the freighter “Haxby,” which was sunk by an armed cruiser last April. The survivors were transferred to a Norwegian freighter under Nazi control off the Zeeland coast and were on route to internment, when a submarine intercepted the prison ship and rescued the prisoners.