RUTHLESS SINKING
NORWEGIAN TANKER CREW ADRIFT FOR DAYS (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 16. The ruthless character that the German war on neutral merchant shipping has assumed, was illustrated in the torpedoing last Sunday, without warning, of the Norwegian tanker, Arne Kjode. by a German U-boat. In this case no attempt was made on the part of the U-boat to save the crew of the torpedoed ship although the weather was bad and the vessel's position far from land.
The crew of the Arne Kjode took took to the boats, but it was not until after more than two days that 23 men in one boat were picked up. They were suffering serevely from exposure.
Twenty hours later 12 more members of the crew were picked up, but five are still missing. British ships effected these rescues.
From the evidence obtained, it is clear that the U-boat could not possibly have taken the Arne Kjode for anything but what she was —a neutral tanker. The action of the submarine commander constitutes a brutal disregard of the rules of submarine warfare to which the Nazi Government pledged itself.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 5
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