WAR AT SEA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 153, 31 May 1941, Page 7

WAR AT SEA.

ITALIAN REPORTS. | (lice. 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. j An Italian communique reports that ! the Conterosso, sailing in a convoy in the Mediterranean, was hit by a tor- ■ pedo. A major part of the crew were j saved. The communique adds that Italian air force planes have repeatedly nt- ! tacked enemy naval forces in the Eastern Mediterranean. A British destroyer blew up after being hit by a bomb and many of the crew were rescued. LOSSES IN ATLANTIC. SHTPS WITH SUPPLIES. (12.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 30. Authentic reports presented to Congress show that 28 ships carrying war supplies from United States ports have been sunk cn route to Britain since i the outbreak of tile war. Tabulation; is not available, but legislators said j it was safe to assume that the loss ratio of American goods was relatively small. It is pointed out. however, that the j sinkings do not include losses of equip-j nient produced in the'United States | and sent to Canada for transhipment, j At Port-of-i Spain (Trinidad) two j American women passengers told a t story of a British cruiser’s intercep-! tion of the French ship Winnipeg, j German passengers were celebrating i with champagne and expected an early. arrival at Martinique when a shot was! fired across the bows. The Germans, threw hundreds of letters and docti-’ ments overboard. Hundreds of German < passengers were interned.