PORTUGUESE SHIP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 October 1941, Page 5

PORTUGUESE SHIP

SUNK BY U-BOAT SURVIVORS TAKEN TO LISBON : London. Oct 15. , After ordering the 36 members of the crew and six passengers, including two ! women and two children, to take to 1 the lifeboats, a U-boat shelled and rank 1 the Portuguese ship Corte Real in the Atlantic on 12th October, stated a mes- • sage from Lisbon. She was en route ' to America The U-boat then towed the lifeboats within 20 miles of the Per- ; 1 , tuguest coast, where they were spotted by a Portuguest plane, which signalled , for a rescue ship, in which the occu- | ; pants of the lifeboats were taken to i Lisbon The sinking of the Corte Real lias j ; caused the greatest indignation in Por- j tugal. says the Lisbon correspondent, of i : ! "The Times.” ft is pointed out that | -he was a neutral ship proceeding to ; ] a neutral port, and that a large part j i of her cargo was not intended for Arne- j rica but for the' Azores Her loss will : increase the difficulty of provisioning ' } Portugal. j The "Daily Telegraph’s" Lisbon cor- j respondent -ay ■ tin sinking constitutes , i Hitler’s rcplv to Mr Roosevelt’s Atlan- I , tic policy, because the Corte Real's na- ' ,1 lionahtv could not be doubted. | The fact that the U-boat commander first examined the ship s papers opens up the prospect that Germany might i menace all neutral shipping to and from j the United State's. j Li: bon also reported that a steamer J has landed 80 survivors from four ships ; which were recently sunk in a convoy ;j ion mile c from Hie Azores. One huni dred people took to the boats, and 20 : died before the survivors reached the . Azores, suffering from hunger and j thirst. It is officially stated in Lisbon that !)4 passengers and 71 members of the crew lost their lives when the Englandbound British steamer (as reported yesterday), was torpedoed.—U.P.A