GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 100, 27 March 1942, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS

fUnited Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 11.20) WASHINGTON, Mar. 26'. A navy communique states that tho United States Coastguard cutter | Acacia was shelled and sunk prcsumI ably by an enemy submarine. The Polish Premier (General Sik'orski) conferred with President RooseI velt to-day. He told the Press there was perfect harmony in all matters pertaining not only to general war questions on a world basis but also to matters pertaining to Poland. Asked whether the Polish boundaries after the war were included in the discussions, General Sikorski replied in the affirmative.

General Sikorski said the Polish Government in exile in London had authorised him to bestow Poland's highest military honour, the Virtuti Militari, on General MacArthur. Only two other Americans, General Pershing and the Unknown Soldier, had been awarded this honour. NEvv' Mar. 26.

Navy officials have disclosed how an unarmed freighter sank a Nazi submarine by swiftly manoeuvring. The submarine surfaced and fired a torpedo, which missed. Expecting an easy victim, the submarine did not dive and was therefore helpless when the freighter swung round suddenly, ramming the U-boat. German sailors on the deck of the submarine screamed as they floundered in the water, ana almost instantly there was a loud explosion astern which the captain said i "darn near stood the freighter on end." The explosion did not injure the freighter. RIO DE JANEIRO, March 26.

A dispatch to the newspaper Oglobo from Sao Paulo reported to-day the arrest of a German admiral "who is [an assistant to Hitler and is a wellknown Nazi leader." The Sao Paulo police refused to give the prisoner's name, but said he was the chief of a widespread Nazi espionage ring in Southern Brazi], having been in the country five months. Press dispatches have also reported the seizure of sailors, believed to bo Graf Spee refugees, in the interior of Paraiba State,