GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 117, 16 April 1940, Page 8

GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES

HEAVY PUNISHMENT. WEEK’S SINKINGS LISTED. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireicss.) ItUGBY, April 15. The Admiralty announces: “Some indication of the highly successful work under extremely hazardous conditions of our submarines during the past week can now be given. The German ‘pocket’ battleship Admiral Sclieer was successfully attacked by the submarine Spearfish in the early hours of Thursday morning last. It is probable the Admiral Sclieer was hit by more than one torpedo. “H.M.S. Truant torpedoed and sank a German cruiser, believed to bo the Karlsruhe, on Tuesday last. The sinking of this cruiser has already been announced and admitted by the Germans.

“Other successes include the sinking of the following German transports and supply ships: The tanker Posidnnia (3911 tons), August Leonbardt (2593 tons), Ivreta (2359 tons) Rio de Janeiro (5261 tons), lonia (3102 tons), Antares (2593 tons), Moorsund (321 tons), also an unknown German ship of about 4000 tons.

“Also, ou Wednesday, two more unknown German ships were sunk and four other ships in convoy were hit by a torpedo, the result being unknown. In addition the Alster (8514 tons) has been captured and three trawlers, the Friesland, Nordland and Biankenberg, have been brought into a British port. “All these ships are in addition to six supply ships and the Rauenfels, which were sunk off Narvik by the Second Destroyer Flotilla on Wednesday last, as announced in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister. “The following known scuttling* have taken place —the tanker Skagerrak (6044 tons), on being sighted by a British cruiser, and the German ship Maine (7624 ton*), on being sighted by the Norwegian destroyer Draug,. which picked up some 60 of the crew and conveyed them to a British port. The Drnug now forms part of the Allied naval forces. “It has been reported that the German tanker Kattegat has been sunk by the Norwegians in the Skagerrak. It will be noticed that no mention is made of the loss of any U-boats. It would be incorrect to assume that positive results had not been attained.”