SUBMARINE RAIDS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 5

SUBMARINE RAIDS

BRITISH SHIPS MORE VICTIMS CLAIMED LOSS OF LIFE INVOLVED NO WANNING GIVEN SHELLING OF BOATS (Kico. Tel. Copyright—United Prosit Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 8, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7. Further British merchant ships have been reported to have fallen victims of the war on the sea. A Lisbon report states the British freighter Manaar was sunk by an explosion in the Atlantic. At least two people were killed and four wounded. Three lifeboats with 41 members of the crew have not been traced. Survivors declare that the ship was torpedoed without warning at 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday. The submarine came to the surface while the ship was being abandoned and tired on and destroyed a lifeboat, one man being killed and four wounded, ol' whom one died on the rescue ship Mars. It is reported that there are 29 survivors. Others in Trouble Information has been received that the British vessel Royal Spectre has been torpedoed. There are no details. A message from New York says that the liner Washington has radioed that she is responding to an SOS call from the Olivegrove, which is off Cobh, formerly Queenstown. A subsequent report stated that the Olivegrove had been torpedoed. A Lisbon report states that one passenger and 32 members of the crew of the British ship Bosnia, which was sunk in the Atlantic this week, have landed from a Norwegian freighter. They expressed gratitude at the manner in which they were treated by the Norwegians and Portuguese. The survivors from the Bosnia also report that the crew was permitted to abandon the ship before it was torpedoed. Corinthia Escapes The Ministry of Information states that the Corinthia was attacked by a submarine, but escaped. The Corinthia is not listed in Lloyd's Register, but the Carinthia sailed for Liverpool from New York on September 3. The statement adds that British attacks against submarines are continuing, and at least one success has been secured. ! A message from Athens states that Germany regrets the sinking of the Costis by a mine, and explains that she was following the wrong course, despite warnings.

The Manaar was a steamer of 7242 tons gross register built in Glasgow in 1917. ' The Royal Spectre was a steamer of 3838 tons gross built in Sunderland in 190 G. The Olivegrove, a British ship, is registered as a steamer of 4060 tons gross, and was built in Glasgow in 1929 for the Grove Bine.