U-BOATS SWITCH TO SOUTH ATLANTIC

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 18, 16 October 1942, Page 5

U-BOATS SWITCH TO SOUTH ATLANTIC

Concentrating Near Cape LONDON, October 14. The German High Command announced: “The British liners Orcades and Duchess of Atholl, have been sunk. U-boats sank the Orcades off Cape Town and the Duchess of Atholl between Freetown (West Africa) and Capo Town. Both liners were equipped to carry 9000 or 10,000 men with arms to Egypt. Two other ships were sunk in the same waters.” A message from Freetown reports that 249 survivors, including 82 passengers from a ship which was torpedoed in the Atlantic, landed there. A British consul-general and also an Argentine consul-general are among the survivors. It ia Icurnt that U-boats htjve switched to a new area of operations round the Cape, and it is stated that they may have some success at first. Nevertheless. i’ is stated in London that the German claims are exaggerated. The American Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, ’revealed that Brazilian naval forces have been placed under the direction of the American area commander, Admiral Jonas Ingram, who is expanding his activities considerably. An Italian communique states thut a British submarine in the central Mediterranean torpedoed and sunk an Italian ship carrying 400 British prisoners, of whom. 261 were saved. One Italian submarine operating in the Atlantic has uot returned.