SUNK BY SHELLS
TWO GERMAN SHIPS
ONE CALLS FOR HELP
BRITISH NAVAL GUNS
NAZIS LEAVE VESSELS
(Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reccl. Nov. 14, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 12.
The Admiralty announces that the German vessels, the Mecklenburg and Parana, were sunk by gunfire by British warships. The Germans had abandoned the ships.
A Reykjavik (Iceland) message states that the radio station there picked up an SOS from the Parana reporting that she had been attacked by British destroyers,
The Mecklenburg was a ship of 8000 tons and the Parana had a tonnage of 0000. When the vessels were inter* ceptecl by the British warships the crews of the German craft abandoned the ships, leaving them in a sinking condition. After the crews had been picked up by the British warships, the two German ships were sunk by gunlire to avoid the chance of their being a danger to navigation.
It is authoritatively stated that German submarines sank only the Carmarthen Coast last week.
The British ship which the German radio claimed to-day had been sunk off the coast of Spain by gunfire from German submarines was the Pozano, although the German announcement of the tonnage as 14,000 was erroneous.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 14 November 1939, Page 8
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