NAVAL-SUCCESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23758, 11 September 1940, Page 10

NAVAL-SUCCESS

BBITISH SUBMARINES , ITALIAN VESSELS SUNK I • f SUPPLY 7 SHIPS FOR LIBYA By .Telegraph—Proas Association —Copyright British Wireless LONDON, Sept. 0 The recent successful activities of British submarines are mentioned in an Admiralty communique which states: "British submarines operating in Mediterranean waters are adding considerably to the Italian High Command's difficulties in keeping its army in Libya supplied. "The submarine Osiris has sunk an Italian supply Bhip of about 3000 tons. The submarine Rorqual attacked a convoy of two supply ships, escorted by one destroyer, and torpedoed and sank both the Italian supply ships." Another Admiralty communique announces that the submarine Phoenix is considerably overdue and must be considered lost. The Phoenix was a submarine of the Parthian class and was completed in 1929. She had a surface displacement of 1475 tons and was armed with a 4in. gun and eight torpedo tubes. Her normal complement was 50. LOYAL HEBRIDES GIFT FOR AEROPLANE ISLANDERS' WAR SERVICE (Received September 10, 5.50 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON, Sept. 9 The people of the islands of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, who are mostly fishermen and crofters, are sending more than. £6OOO to Mr. Churchill to be devoted to the purchase of an aeroplane. In a telegram to Mr. Churchill, which he has gratefully acknowledged, the islands' Spitfire Committee says: "On the anniversary of the declaration 1 of war, the people of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, are proud to convey to you their unswerving loyalty and devotion to the national cause. "Since September these islands have claimed the high honour of having more men proportionately in the fighting services than any other part of the Empire. Many villages have had close on 20 per cent of their total population on service since the outbreak of war. Casualties have been three times higher than for the country as a whole. "The people still at home, wishing to maintain that record of those on active service, have to-day forwarded a' sum of more than £6400 to the Ministry of Aircraft Production for the purchase of a fighter aeroplane to be called the Lewis and Harris fighter." This sum was collected in a single ■week with the enthusiastic support of the crofting and fishing communities of the islands. Typical of the spirit which accomplished this result is the comment of a crofter who contributed £l, declaring that he had not £1 to give, but he would Bell his calf to get it.