AXIS RAIDER IN ATLANTIC

Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 5

AXIS RAIDER IN ATLANTIC

American Ship Sunk (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 20. The New York Times asserts that a medium sized United States merchantman which was sunk in the middle of July off the west coast of Africa was the first American victim of an enemy surface raider since the war started. The newspaper adds that this confirms recent reports that a heavily-armea German raider is loose in the South Atlantic, also rumours from Brazil that a surface raider—-the Prinz Eugen—was sighted 1000 miles off the coast. At least 15 members of the crew of the American merchantman were killed, while 20 others are prisoners on board the raider, according to the captain, who further reported that darkness partly obscured the raider, but it ap-

peared to be between 8000 and 9000 tons and was equipped with at least six guns. ... A high official of the Brazilian Government Navigation Line said that the sinking of the five Brazilian ships was the result of the brazen operations of Nazi spies, who gave information on planned troop movements. The Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the United Press of America says the Government has prohibited the departure of about 100 Germans who intended to embark on diplomatic vessels for Lisbon, ordering them to be held as hostages for 11 Brazilians arrested by the Germans in France.