U-BOATS BUSY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 168, 18 July 1942, Page 5

U-BOATS BUSY

MORE SHIPS LOST

Several Cargo Vessels Among

Latest Victims

United Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, July 17.

A Capetown message says an unnamed Dutch ship was torpedoed 300 miles off the East African coast. Six members of the crew were killed. The survivors, when landed at Mozambique, stated that two submarines were seen during the attack.

New York reports that an Axis submarine, operating close to the shore in the Gulf of Mexico, torpedoed and set fire to a mediumsized United States cargo vessel at anchor. The navy disclosed this in announcing the loss of four more merchant vessels in which 29 men perished. Other sinkings were a medium-sized Norwegian merchantman 300 miles off the Atlantic coast, a small Norwegian merchantman torpedoed in the gulf, and a medium-sized United States vessel sunk off the North Atlantic coast of South America.

The Tokyo radio announced that an American submarine sank a Japanese ship. All aboard were lost.

It is officially announced in Stockholm that the Stureborg. which the Swedish Red Cross chartered to carry food supplies to Greece, has been sunk in an air attack in the Mediterranean. Nineteen of the crew are missing. The Stureborg had delivered 2000 to 3000 tons of wheat to Greece and was returning to Haifa, in Syria, when she was sunk. The Stureborg was originally chartered to Britain, but was lent by the Red Cross as a contribution to the relief of the Greeks. If is authoritatively stated in London that no Allied aircraft were in the vicinity of the sinking. It is reported from Ankara that a submarine torpedoed and sank the tanker Antares near Tripoli. The Antares was en route to Haifa in ballast.

The Turkish submarine Saldiray, of 1200 tons, sank after an accident near Chanak, in the Dardanelles, says a Vichj' report. A report from Lisbon states that the Argentine steamer Argentino was torpedoed off the Portuguese coast. She carried a crew of 39 and three passengers. Portuguese naval planes are searching for survivors.