Late News SUBMARINE SEIZES ONION CARGO

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 257, 29 July 1942, Page 6

Late News SUBMARINE SEIZES ONION CARGO

Hungry German Crew

MAMMOTH U-BOAT SHELLS SCHOONER

(By Telegraph. —Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received July 20, 1.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 2S.

The Axis submarines, ranging from the Straits of Florida to the Canadian coast have begun preying on small fry, sinking two fishing-boats at a cost to the United Nations of 40,0001 b. of onions and 10 swordfish. The Navy announced that • near Miami the 16-ton fisherman Gertrude Hijacker was shelled by a Nazi U-boat, whose crew was apparently desperate for provisions as the Nazis got a small store of canned goods and 20 tong of onions which the vessel was carrying to Havana.

Meanwhile the captain of a 30-ton Nova Scotian fisherman related to Canada how the schooner Lucille M was attacked by a mammoth German submarine, which fired 200 shells at the vessel. Nineteen swordfish stowed in the hold went to the bottom with the Lucille.

In Mexico City today it was officially announced that the Mexican freighter, Oaxaca, 4000 tons, was torpedoed on Sunday en route to Tampico from New Orleans. The casualties are undetermined. The Oaxaca was the fifth Mexican vessel lost by submarine action in the Gulf of Mexico and the third since Mexico entered the war.

Lisbon reports that 20 survivors from a British ship which was torpedoed 600 miles north of the Cape Verde Islands were picked up and brought to.Sao Vicente after 16 days in a lifeboat. t AU were exhausted and were taken to hospital.