SUBMARINE RAIDERS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 5

SUBMARINE RAIDERS

North-east Pacific And Indian Ocean JAPANESE GUN LIFEBOAT (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, August 4. The Navy Department announced the sinking of three merchantmen by submarines in widely-separated areas. A small United States merchantman was shelled off the west coast of the United States by a Japanese submarine, which afterward machinegunned the survivors in a lifeboat, killing two. Six others died of exposure. A Panamanian schooner was shelled off the south Atlantic, after which a U-boat machlnegunned her dock while a .lifeboat was being launched, but none of the crew was hurt.

A medium-sized Panamanian vessel was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, with the loss of five members of the crew. ’

OBJECT OF JAPANESE Terrorist Attempt On Australian Coast (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 5. “The shells which laid these men low were not merely fired at them, but were aimed at us and all the people on the east coast of Australia,” said the clergyman at the funeral service of the men killed when a Japanese submarine shelled a fishing trawler. “The object of these pirates," he said, “is to frighten the men who man our fishing boats so that they will not put to sea and so deprive us of food supplies, and also to ,try and create panic among our people on shore. I am confident that aim will have the opposite result instead. I am sure the people here will be stiffened in their determination to eradicate such evils from the earth." It is now stated that the submarine was more than 200 ft. long. It approached within 50 feet of the shelled trawler.