GERMAN SHIP SUNK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 March 1940, Page 5

GERMAN SHIP SUNK

TORPEDOED BY BRITISH SUBMARINE COLLIER INTERCEPTED OFF JUTLAND COAST. CREW OF TWENTY SAVED.

Ry Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 24. •’ Copenhagen reports that a British submarine torpedoed a. German collier oil' the north-west, coast of .Jutland at midnight. The crew of 20 were saved. Two of them were injured in launching a lifeboat and are in hospital. Members of the crew say that the submarine gave them 15 minutes to abandon ship, and took the captain prisoner. It is understood that the collier is the Edmund Hugo Stinnes IV (2189 tons). Danish reports say that the British submarine first fired a shot across the German ship’s bows. She refused to stop and the submarine fired at. her and hit her. She then stopped and the crew, according to British custom, were given 15 minutes to take to theboats. The ship sank slowly, and some of the Germans had time to return to her and to save more clothing.

This is the second German merchantman torpedoed by a submarine during the last few days. The 4900 ton steamer Heddernheim was sunk in the Kattegat last Thursday evening. ■

NEUTRALS IMPRESSED BRITISH OPERATIONS ON IRON ORE ROUTE. ALLEGATIONS BY GERMANY. LONDON, March 24. The British submarine successes on the German iron ore route have impressed Scandinavians, who were unaware that the Navy was operating so close to the Nazi bases. The German news agency alleges that the Edmund Hugo Stinnes was shelled in Danish waters and her captain kidnapped. It adds that the attack was an “incredible violation" of Denmark’s sovereignly. The Rotterdam correspondent of “The Times” says that the Germans admit that the Heddernheim was torpedoed in the Kattegat, which their warships were supposed to be constantly patrolling.

ACTION BY CREW GERMAN SHIP RUN AGROUND. ON COAST OF DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, March 25. The Danish radio announced that the German steamer Ostpreussen (3030 tons) was run aground by her crew on the coast of Denmark.

TRAWLER MINED

ALL THE CREW RESCUED. LONDON. March 25. His Majesty's trawler Loch Assater was sunk by a mine. The crew were rescued.

LOST DANISH SHIPS

NOT IN BRITISH CONVOYS. REPLY TO NAZI CHARGES. COPENHAGEN, March 25. The Foreign Office denies the German claim that the six Danish ships sunk toward the end of last week were in convoys. Mines in the waterway between the islands of Fyen and Zealand have marooned hundreds of Danish holidaymakers in Jutland. The mines are believed to have broken away from German and Danish fields.

NAVAL ACTIVITIES

NORWAY LODGES PROTEST. ALLEGED INFRINGEMENTS BY BRITAIN. OSLO, March 25. An official communique states: “British warships attempted to intercept German vessels off the Norwegian coast three limes in four days. They entered Norwegian territorial waters twice and probably three times, but Norwegian warships and planes ordered them off. "A Norwegian torpedoboat escorted a German merchantman across Norwegian waters, defying a British destroyer. “A protest is being lodged in London." German propaganda is trying to make great capital out of this protest (comments Daventry), but a diplomatic correspondent points out that this propaganda is more than a little ridiculous vsince experience of nearly seven months of warfare can have left little doubt in the minds of neutrals as to who is their real enemy. It wag not British submarines which sank neutral ships without warning or British aeroplanes which machinegunned crews. On]y a tcw days ago Norway protested to Germany about her methods of warfare against neutral ships.