U-BOAT OFFENSIVE.
DEFEAT ASSURED BY NAVY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 12. It is generally realised that the heavy merchant snipping losses by enemy action for the week ending March 2 are the beginning of the spring offensive foreshadowed by Hitler’s speech at the end of February, and firm confidence is expressed in the ability of the Navy to deal with the situation as it has already dealt with a similar offensive earlier in the war. Though this is the third . highest weekly total tonnage lost since the outbreak of war, it is noteworthy that the total for February is less than for last November and each of the live preceding months. A Press Association message from Lisbon says 63 survivors of British ships recently torpedoed in the Atlantic were landed to-day from a Portuguese ship. It is announced that the K.P.M. line freighter Rantaupandjang has been captured and sunk by a German raider. She was to have reached Sydney next month to load foodstuffs for the Netherlands East Indies. It is reported from Algeciras that British warships intercepted a French merchantman of about 1500 tons and escorted it to Gibraltar.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 89, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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191U-BOAT OFFENSIVE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 89, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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