LINER BREMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1939, Page 8

LINER BREMEN

REPORTED SAFE IN NEUTRAL PORT THEORIES IN PARIS / — SHIP EQUIPPED AS RAIDER. MAY HAVE KEPT RENDEZVOUS WITH SUPPLY VESSEL. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 6. A Berlin message states that it is reported that the liner Bremen has arrived safely at an unidentified neutral port. A. North American Nows Agency despatch from Paris by Walter Duranty says expert circles express the openion that the Bremen is already equipped as a commerce raider in the North Atlantic. She probably dashed for shelter in a fiord in Greenland or Labrador, where she took on guns, ammunition and a crew without trouble from another waiting vessel, with which she had a rendezvous. There is a possibility also that she may have three or four light planes, which would aid in the destruction of commerce and act as scouts. POSSIBLE BASE FOR ATTACKS ON CANADA. (Received This Day. 12.55 p.m.) WASHINGTON. September 6. Canadian sources have suggested that the Bremen may be lying off Newfoundland, as a fuel and supply ship for submarines and for aircraft detailed to bombard Canada. NATIONAL DEFENCE EXTENSION OF WORKING HOURS IN FRANCE. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) PARIS, September G. A decree authorises a sixty hour week for national defence industries, with a maximum of seventy-two in auxiliary national defence industries and public services. SHIP MINED BELIEVED TO BE LATVIAN VESSEL. CREW SAID TO HAVE PERISHED. (Receiver) This Dav, 11.20 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Sentember 6. It is stated that the unknown ship sunk near Malno on Monday night by a m ! ne was the Latvian .steamer Imenta, owned by the Latvian Government. The crew of twenty men and two. women is stated to have been I drowned. ;