WAR ON THE SEA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 5

WAR ON THE SEA

FOUR SHIPS SUNK BRITISH AMD GERMAN CREWS OF THREE SAFE NO NEWS OF FOURTH POLISH SUBMARINE LOST (Reed. Sept. G, 11 a.m.) , LONDON, Sept. 5. News has been received of tl e sinking of four merchant ships, two of .them being British-owned and the Other two German. A message from Montevideo, Uruguay, states that the British cruiser Ajax 'shelled and sank the German freighter Olinda, bound for H'.mburg >/ith cereals and canned me'A. The Ajax ordered the master and crew to take to Lhe boats, and then sank the Olinda, which is the first enemy vessel destroyed since the outbreak of hostilities. The crew was taken to Montevideo. t •It is officially announced that the German ships Olinda and Carl Fritzen •ere sunk. The crews are S’: fe. The London correspondent of the United Press, of America says that reports were received that the German steamer Carl Fritzen was sunk, but the manner and locality were not given. The Carl Fritzen was reported to have been bound from Schiedam, Holland, for Canada and Buenos Aires. The Cunard liner Bosnia, of 2400 tons, lias been sunk. All hands were rescued by the Norwegian tanker Eidenger, but a firenv n, Woods, is dead. An Amsterdam report states that a British warship held up and searched the Dutch freighter Groenlo, carrying ore from Bilbao to Rotterdam. The British United Press states that the German navy has announced th i it has sunk a Polish submarine, which is the second since the beginning of hostilities.

The Olinda was a steamer of the Hnmburg-Sduih America Line of 4576 tons. She was built at Kiel 'in 1927. The Bosnia was a steel, single screw vessel of 2402 tons gross register, owned by the Cunard Steam Ship Company. The vessel was built in 1928. The Carl Fritzen, which was built in 1920, was " ship of 6549 tons operating In the Eastern trade.