TOLL AT SEA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23840, 16 December 1940, Page 8

TOLL AT SEA

MERCHANT CRUISER SUNK U-BOAT ATTACKS LINER RESCUE OF MINISTER ORARI TORPEDOED By Telegraph—.Pres* Association—Copyright (Received December 15, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14 The Admiralty announces that the .armed merchant cruiser Forfar has been torpedoed and sunk. There were some casualties. A message from New York says the Mackay Badio reported that the British liner Western Prince, of 10.926 tons, was attacked by a submarine -100 miles north-west of the northern tip of Ireland. The New York managers for the shipping -company said the Canadian Minister of Munitions, Mr. C. D. Howe, was a passenger from New York by the Western Prince. It was stated later at the Canadian Legation in Washington that Mr. Howe and his party had been rescued. The Mackay Radio reported on Friday that the New Zealand Slapping Company's vessel Orari. of 10.350 tons, "was torpedoed that afternoon-, in the Atlantic, in latitude 49.50 north, longitude 20.55 west. A message from Montevideo says the cruiser Enterprise, which has arrived there for' refuelling, reported that it had not sighted the German raider which engaged the British armed merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle in the South Atlantic. The Norwegian Shipping Commission has confirmed the report that the steamer Oslofjord struck a mine and sank off Newcastle-on-Tyne recently. The Western Prince was built_ in Glasgow in 1929 for the Prince Line, Ximited, her port of register being London. Built in 1931 at Glasgow, the Orari ■was a refrigerated cargo ship of 10,350 tons, with a length of 471 ft. She Mas employed in the trade between the X'uited Kingdom, Canada, Australia end New Zealand, and was well known ■ nt Auckland, GERMAN SHIP SUNK BRITISH SUBMARINE OIL TANKER DAMAGED British Wireless LONDON, Dec. 13 An Admiralty communique states that the British submarine Sunfish, while operating close to the Norwegian coast, torpedoed and sank a German Bupply ship of about 4000 tons, which was deeply laden, and probably carrying a large cargo of ore for Germany. Two torpedoes from the Sunfish were seen to hit, and the enemy ship broke up and sank immediately. The Sunfish also attacked a German cil tanker of about 5000 tons. This ship was hit and damaged. ABANDONED BY CREW BURNING GERMAN SHIP ■DUTCH DESTROYER'S CHASE NEW YORK, Dec. 13 The American destroyer Macleish witnessed' the destruction of the German steamer Bhein in the Gulf of Mexico on Pecember 12. An officer of the destroyar said that United States destroyers had followed in the wake of the Bhein since she left Tampico. The Dutch destroyer Yan Kinsbergen closely pursued the Bhein, which suddenly burst into flames forward and in the stern* and the crew abandoned ship. .-The Dutch sailors boarded the Bhein, hut were unable to extinguish the flames. Later, in darkness, the British cruiser Caradoc arrived and took the Germans- aboard from the Yan Kinsbergen. The cruiser played searchlights on the burning Rhein, as also did the Macleish.. A few minutes later shots sent the Rhein to the bottom. CAPTURED STEAMERS CREW OF OLE JACOB (Received December 15, 8.30 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, Dec. 14 The Oslo correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter says the Germans and Italians intend, if they capture any Norwegian ships, to use them for war purposes. The Norwegian tanker Ole Jacob, recently reported as captured by a raider in the Indian Ocean, was taken to Japan. A German crew boarded the chip and the Norwegians were sent home across Siberia. UNITED STATES PATROL (Received December 15, 7.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 14 The United States Navy to-morrow will start a J daylight air patrol of the sea approaches to New York, thus supplementing the destroyer neutrality patrol. The air patrol will extend for 75 miles out over the Atlantic, and fill a gap which formerly existed between the chore and the route of the patrolling destroyers. OIL FROM RUMANIA EXPLOSION BREAKS PIPE GERMAN SUPPLY INTERRUPTED LONDON, Dec. 15 An oil pipe line running near the main railway line from Bucharest to Germany was broken last night at a point where it passes under a railway bridge. A great explosion not only broke the pipe line, but caused damage to the bridge, which will interrupt railway traffic for some days. This temporarily cuts off the supply of oil and other products to Germany. INDIAN PRODUCTS SEARCH FOR MARKETS DELHI. Dec. 12 The All-India industries conference, opening; at Lucknow on Pecember 16, will discuss sending trade delegations to Africa, South America, New Zealand and Australia in order to find markets for Indian products.