NAZI SEA RAIDERS MUST BE DESTROYED INTERNED IN BRITAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 7

NAZI SEA RAIDERS

MUST BE DESTROYED

INTERNED IN BRITAIN

APPARENTLY TWO ONE MAY BE IN PACIFIC VERY LITTLE HARM SO FAR [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Oct, 28, 6.35 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 27. A high authority states that it is very likely that two German raiders are at sea, namely, the pocket-battleships Admiral Scheer and Deutschland, both of which have great endurance and a range of ,?0,000 miles at low speed, even without supply ships. Therefore it is possible that the Admiral Scheer would be in the Pacific or the Indian Ocean, though no reports have been received. It is most probable that the Admiral Scheer sank the steamer Clement. It is unlikely that the light cruiser Emden is at large. The raiders “are really doing us very little harm,'’ the authority stated, “considering the time they have been operating on busy sea routes.” Naval Comment A British Official Wireless message says that the question of the number of German raiders operating in the Atlantic has provoked interest among naval commentators in London. ' Though the possibility of one ship having been as far as the South Atlantic and the Newfoundland coast cannot be overlooked, the combination of dates on which raiders appeared rather suggests that two German ships have been at large. The next information after the reported sinking of the Stonegate about 500 miles east of Florida on October 15 was received on October 12, when, off the Newfoundland coast, a Norwegian ship was stopped but not alltacked. On October 14, in about the same region, the Norwegian steamship [Nansen was sunk, and it appeared [that a raider was cruising in the neighbourhood of the famous Newfoundland fishing bank. On the same day another Norwegian ship was istopped and the crew of the Stonegate I were transferred from the raider to her. On September 3 the British steamer Clement was sunk off the coast of Pernambuco. Despite the distance, there is no reason why the raider which attacked the Clement should not have steamed quickly to the position where the Stonegate was sunk. Nothing has been heard of armed merchantmen elsewhere, and the net result of these attacks over quite, a considerable period is very small, indeed. Both pocket battleships seem to have failed to get into the areas of dense shipping. Their endurance at an economical cruising speed of 15 knots is 20,000 miles, but, of course, at the full speed of 28 knots this range would be considerably reduced. It is felt that these ships might have taken advantage of darkness, bad weather, and indiscriminate use of Norwegian territorial waters to return to Germany.

NAZI TYRANNY Received Oct. 29, 5.5 p.m. OTTAWA, Oct. 27. The Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, in a broadcast speech, said the war was a crusade to save Christian civilisation, and those who who enlisted were, first and foremost. Defenders of the Faith. Nazi doctrines were the antithesis of the Christian Gospel. The Premier said he was compelled to believe that only by the destruction of Nazism could Britain continue and the liberty of the world be spared a new and terrible age of barbarism.

80 GERMAN SAILORS (Daventry Broadcast). LONDON, Oct. 28. The latest indication of the British success in the war at sea is the landing of 80 German seamen at a Scottish port by a British armed merchant cruiser. The prisoners were taken to an internment camp.