SUBMARINE WARFARE

Evening Star, Issue 23368, 11 September 1939, Page 5

SUBMARINE WARFARE

DENIAL BY GERMANY NAVY TO ASIDE BY INTERNATIONAL LAW BERLIN, September 9. The High Command denies that it ordered unlimited submarine warfare, but declares that the navy was commanded to abide by international law. WARWICK CASTLE ESCAPES LONDON, September 10. The Warwick Castle was attacked by a submarine, but escaped. SINKING OF THE OLIVE GROVE LONDON, September 9. (Received September 11, at 8 a.m.) Captain Bariston, of the Olive Grove, describing the torpedoing, says: “We tried to escape, but the submarine came right on and ordered us to heave to. It fired a warning shot and we took to the boats. The submarine then torpedoed the Olive Grove, after which the commander asked me to go on board the submarine. He examined my papers and questioned me about the location. Apparently be was not too sure where he was.’’ TANKER SUNK NEW YORK, September 10. (Received September 11, at 8 a.m.) The Amsterdam correspondent of the American Associated Press says a message from ' the Netherlands steamer Breedyk reported that the tanker Kennebec was torpedoed and sunk. The entire crew of 32 were saved by the Breedyk. The location is not given. A later message states that the Anglo-American Oil Company are the owners of the Kennebec. • This company is a subsidiary of the American Standard Oil Comphy. GERMAN MERCHANTMEN SWEPT FROM THE SEAS LONDON, September 9. The Ministry of Information states that virtually all German merchantmen have been swept from the high seas. Many have been captured and frequently the crews have scuttled their vessels before abandoning ship. The Ministry emphasised that the crews have invariably reached safety. WAR UNPOPULAR IN GERMANY BUT NAZISM HOLDS THE REINS NEW YORK, September 9. Commenting on the official announcement that Britain is preparing for a war of at least three years’ duration, and on Field-Marshal Goering’s speech, the London correspondent of the New York 1 Times ’ says : “ This is Britain’s emphatic and unmistakable answer to Goering’s suggestion that Britain might be prepared to reconsider her position, and also a reply to wishful thinkers who are ac- - cepting at their face value rumours oi discontent in Germany. It is known there is discontent, but well-informed quarters feel it will be a long time before it is serious enough to count as a real factor,” he states. “ War is unpopular in Germany, but it is not believed that Nazism will crack until Germany is hit so hard that Germans are ready to brave the Gestapo in order to discard Nazism. Officially, emphasis is laid less on an asumption that the war will last three years than on the pledges that Britain is determined to see it through. There is not the slightest doubt that the Government has expressed the nation’s firm resolve. “ The real point of Goering s speech lies in his appeal to Mr Chamberlain. Evidently the German leaders are still hoping the French-British resolution to fight Nazism to the bitter end is not irrevocable. They will learn the mistakenness of that hope.” POLISH MISSION ARRIVAL IN LONDON LONDON, September 9. The Polish mission under General Norvid Neugebauer arrived in London to-day. It was met by the Polish Ambassador, the Polish military attache, and by a representative of the War Office. General Norvid Neugebauer began his military career in the Russian Imperial Army. He was a member of Marshal Pi'lsudski’s secret rifle clubs, and on the outbreak of the Great War ho became a battalion commander in the Polish Legion. The end of the war found him in command of a division. He later became deputy chief of the Polish general staff, and he represented Poland at the French army manoeuvres in 1937. As the army inspector at War-, saw, he received General Sir_ Edmund Ironside on his visit there this year. ~ POLES IN FRANCE FORMING MILITARY UNIT PARIS, September 9. A large Polish military unit will be formed in France, where it is estimated that 1,000,000 Poles reside. CZECH NATIONAL COMMITTEE READY TO ACT AS GOVERNMENT LONDON, September 10. Mr Chamberlain has sent the following message to Dr Benes: —“We look forward through triumph in the principle for which we have taken ud arms to relieve the Czech people from foreign domination.” Decrees similar to M. Poincare’s in 1917 can be expected, constituting a Czech army. A Czech National Committee has been formed in Paris to act as n Provisional Government in the event of the recovery of Czecho-Slo-vakia.