AIMIRALTY CONFIRMATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 97, 23 March 1940, Page 7

AIMIRALTY CONFIRMATION.

| CREW REPORTED SAFE. MORE NEUTRAL VICTIMS. Received March 23, 10.40 a.in. LONDON, March 22. Tie Admiralty announces that on Thursday evening one of His Majesty's submarines intercepted the Heddernheir. eight miles from the coast of Demark. The submarine reports the crei are safe and she has sunk the Hei;Jernheim. Tlie Heddernheiin is beliewl to be the'first Germen mcrchantlnaj sunk by a torpedo since the outbretk of the war. liie 1026 tons Danish steamer Charkovj lias been sunk off the cast coast of Scotland. There is no news of the creii U-boats also sank without warning the Christiansborg (3270 tons) and theSvinta, making the total seven lost in Wo days as a result of Germany’s unrestricted warfare against neutrals. Alohit 50 persons arc missing. None of the ships was sunk in convoy. A German ’plane bombed the Norwegian ship Terra Elisc (721 tons) in a convoy off the Scottish coast on Wklnesday and killed three members of ;the crew. The ship put into a north-east coast port. The captain and ontj member of the crew were injured. ’Jlie skipper of the Aberdeen trawleiiStar of Peace reported that he bolie r ed a trawler was destroyed or badly damaged by a U-boat in the North SeJ yesterday. The trawler humped ov?r ‘a metal object and lurched four tildes. It circled the spot but there were no signs of wreckage. ARorlin communique claims that ihc activities of the naval forces against merchant, shipping continue and they hajesuccessfully sunk 32.694 tons of enfmvshipping and shipping useful to tin] enemy in the past three days.