SUNK BY GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 5

SUNK BY GERMANS

Two Allied Schooners In

Atlantic

MANY PASSENGERS SAVED

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received September 6, 9.10 p.m.)

NEW YORK, September 5.

A message from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, says that a U-boat shelled and sank a three-master American schooner in the Atlantic recently. Survivors revealed that the vessel left the West Indies with a cargo of molasse's several weeks ago.

Eleven days out, a submarine halted the vessel and the crew of seven abandoned the ship in two dories (fishing dinghies). Five days later they were picked up 'by a merchantman and later transferred to a British warship. The Venezuelan naval authorities, says a message from Caracas, report that the British schooner Gold 8., was torpedoed near the Gulf of Maracaibo. The newspaper “Ultimas Noticing” said that nearly all the crew and 65 passengers have been landed at Puerto Cabello. The Navy Department revealed the torpedoing of a small Latvian ship in the Caribbean in August. Twenty-four members of the crew were drowned when the vessel sank one minute after an explosion. Fourteen survivors were landed. A medium-sized British merchantman was torpedoed in the Caribbean in the middle of August. Six members of the crew were lost and 49 rescued, including eight British Navy gunners. The Associated Press of America states that the commander of a German U-boat was captured when a depth-bomb attack forced the submarine on to a reef, according to a broadcast by the anti-Nazi German radio “Gustav Siegfried,” which was heard in Boston. The broadcaster said that an American plane dropped a rubber raft, saving the commander and three others. Fourteen of the crew died.