“Get Home Or Scuttle” Orders To Nazi Ships
(Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, February 13. Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Harwood announced that a British patrol ship picked up the crew of the German freighter Wakama (3771 tons), after the Germans had set the Wakama afire. He added that the Wakama had sunk, and was a menace to navigation. According to a member of the crew of H.M.S. Hawkins, a British cruiser sank the German freighter Wolfesburg (6201 tons). i Trying To Run Blockade. A number of German ships, which have been sheltering for months ip neutral ports, are now trying to slip through the naval patrol. They are popularly described as sailing under “get home or scuttle” orders. Six escaped from Vigo under cover of darkness last week-end, three of which, the Wangoni (7848 tons), Wahehe (4709 tons) and the Orizaba, are carrying British cargo valued at nearly £IOO.OOO. Others are the Arucas (3359 tons), the Rostock (2542 tons) and the Morea (1927 tons).
Rescue.—A message from London says a coastal command aeroplane guided a mine-sweeper to an open boat in which 10 members of the crew of the trawler Theresa Boyle had been drifting for 50 hours. Their vessel had been sunk by a German bomber 120 miles from the English coast.
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Northern Advocate, 14 February 1940, Page 5
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