SUBMARINE RAID

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 18 February 1942, Page 5

SUBMARINE RAID

ON OIL TANKERS AND l REFINERY Washington, Feb. 16.!, It is reported from Willemstad, in!, ! Curacao, that an Axis submarine tor- j ( pedoed three tankers and shelled the j t ; Standard Oil Company’s refinery at j „ 'Aruba, Dutch West Indies. The re- c finery was only slightly damaged. One tanker was torpedoed near Wil- . lemstad harbour. Though badly dam- | aged, 'it has been saved. [ f GERMAN STORY OF U-BOAT ! CRUISE c London, Feb. 17. The Berlin news agency released the c story of a cruise of a U-boat comman- t der, Lieutenant-Kapitan Hardegan, who t claimed to have reached the "entrance” t to New York. He said: "We were i amazed as we looked on the city and ( saw Long Island’s piers and the cease- c less coming and going of harbour craft. ( We sank ten ships, totalling 66.000 tons, £ off the American coast, including the , tanker Nordess. (The United States , Navy Department admitted the loss of the Nordess on 15th January). j SINKING OF SUBMARINES CLAIMED c New York, Feb. 16. , The Army announced the probable ( destruction of an enemy submarine off £ the Atlantic coast early this month by an army patrol bomber which attacked while the submarine was on the surface during a rainstorm and loosed several bombs. Later an oil patch appeared on the water. It was the first official account of counter-action against the submarines operating off the Atlantic coast. The probable sinking of two other enemy submarines off the east coast of Canada is also reported.—P.A. .