WAR ON SHIPPING.
LONDON, March 22
A German communique states that Admiral Luetjens, commander of a battleship unit, reports a lengthy enterprise in the North Atlantic. He claims to have sunk 22 armed merchant ships of a tonnage of 110,000. German battleships sayed 800 survivors.
U-boats attacked off the West Africa coasts, continued the German claim, a heavily-laden and strongly-protected convoy bound for England, and after trailing it for several days and carrying out repeated attacks succeeded in sinking 11 ships of a. total tonnage of 70,000. The Associated Press of America reports from an east coast Canadian port that freighter crews said to-day that two British vessels may have been sunk by a German surface raider 300 miles south-east of Newfoundland. Wireless messages were received, they said, from a tanker and a cargo ship saying that an enemy surface vessel was shelling them in that area. Silence followed. I
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 24 March 1941, Page 7
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