U-BOAT MENACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24836, 9 February 1942, Page 5

U-BOAT MENACE

AMERICAN COUNTER-MEASURES WASHINGTON, (Rec. 10 p.m.) Feb. 7. , The U.S.A. Navy Department announced that vigorous United States counter-measures against Axis U-boat activity on the Atlantic coast were meeting with increasing success, but details were not given of the number of U-boats destroyed. SUNK BY TORPEDO TANKER OFF AMERICAN COAST ATLANTIC CITY, (Rec 9 p.m.) Feb. 6. The tanker India Arrow sank in blazing oil. She was torpedoed off New Jersey at about 7 p.m. in clear moonlight on Wednesday. The fire from the oil spread over a wide area and burned for more than two hours, but failed to attract any ship. About half of the missing men were in the second lifeboat, but the captain does not know whether it cleared the ship or escaped from the burning area. The 12 survivors were afloat for 36 hours before they were picked up by a fishing boat to-day. Twenty-six members of the crew are missing. ■/ SWEDISH SHIP SUNK (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. ; The Navy Department announced that the Swedish ship Amerikaland was torpedoed on February 2 off the Atlantic coast. Eleven survivors reached New York to-day. The Amerikaland was attacked by two submarines. Three lifeboats were launched, but two of the boats are missing. This was the twentieth ship to be attacked on the Atlantic coast since January 14. ,