ATTACKS ON SHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1939, Page 6

ATTACKS ON SHIPS

GERMAN SUBMARINE WARFARE BRITISH FREIGHTER LOST. FORTY-ONE MEMBERS OF CREW NOT TRACED. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LISBON, September 7. The British freighter Manaar was sunk by an explosion in the Atlantic. At least two persons were killed and four wounded. Three lifeboats, with forty-one members of the crew, are untraced. Survivors declare that the steamer was torpedoed without warning at 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday. A submarine came to the surface while the abandoning of the ship was going on and fired on and destroyed a lifeboat, when one person was killed and four wounded, of whom one died on the rescue ship Mars. It is reported that there are 29 survivors.

CORINTHIA ESCAPES

'ENCOUNTER WITH SUBMARINE,

SHIP REACHES PORT SAFELY. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, September’ 7. The Ministry for Information states, that the Corinthia- was attacked by a submarine but escaped. The Corinthia is not listed but the Carinthia sailed for Liverpool from New York on September 3. It is added that British attacks against submarines are continuing with at least one success. ROYAL SCEPTRE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN TORPEDOED. (Received This Day. 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 7. Information has ' been received that the British vessel Royal Sceptre, 4,853 tons, has been torpedoed. There are no details. • S.O.S. CALL ANSWERED BY AMERICAN LINER. OLIVE GROVE IN DIFFICULTIES. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK. September 7. The liner Washington has radioed that she is responding to a S.O.S. cal] from the Olive Grove, off Cobh. BOSNIA SURVIVORS PERMITTED TO ABANDON SHIP. BEFORE IT WAS SUNK. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LISBON, September 7. The Bosnia survivors arrived and report that the crow were permitted to abandon the ship before it was torpc-| doed. U.S.A. CABINET EMERGENCY MEETING HELD. POSSIBILITY OF CONGRESS BEING CALLED. (Received This Day. noon.) WASHINGTON, September 7. President Roosevelt held an emergency Cabinet meeting. He indicated that ho was also canvassing congressional leaders to call a special session of Congress. • SHORT-TERM CREDITS. PERMISSIBLE TO BELLIGERENTS. (Received This Day. 9.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 7. President Roosevelt has ruled that short-term commercial credits to belligerents are permissible under the Neutrality Act.