DANGER ROUND CAPE PALMAS

Evening Star, Issue 24324, 13 October 1942, Page 3

DANGER ROUND CAPE PALMAS

INFORMATION GIVEN TO ENEMY LONDON, October 11. Nearly a dozen Allied ships are known to have been sunk around Cape Palmas, says Reuters correspondent in a message from a United Nations base in West Africa. The Germans . are using a small typo of U-boat off West Africa, and are apparently receiving supplies and assistance from pro-Ger-man countries which are technically neutral. The Associated Press reports that one trader said he saw in August two U-boats in the roadstead at Port Bouet which is an important shipping centre on the Ivory Coast. An airline pilot saw a submarine refuelling near the same city, and other submarines have been reported at Konakry and off Dakar. Three Vichy merchantmen and one destroyer sailed in a northerly direction around Capo Palmas shortly before three submarines fired on an Aided plane in that vicinity. The Vichy ships possibly carried fuel for a rendezvous with the submarines. A rubber planter said it was common knowledge that native-owned surf boats wont, to sea at night from neutral territory loaded with meat, and returned in the morning empty. It was also suggested that it was no coincidence that bush fires which «were visible far out to sea broke out when Allied ships were at the ports, and were extinguished after the ships sailed.