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ENEMY VESSELS. SUBMARINE SUCCESSES, i 'CONVOYS ATTACKED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May TO, 10.30 a.in. LOUDON, May 9. The Admiralty .announces further submarine successes against enemy transports and supply ships. During an attack against a convoy of ten enemy ships, six- torpedoes struck three ships. Three hits were scored against another convoy, and two against a third convoy. One unconvoyed ship was torpedoed and sunk and another driven ashore and destroyed by gunfire and torpedo. ' A Stockholm -report cays that the Swedish cargo ship Haga. (1296 tons) ha 6 been sank. ; Four persons were killed. A London message says -that a total of 11 officers and 83 ratings are missing from the submarines Sterlet and Tarpon, which were sunk last month. With the issue of a further list of 4i U-boat prisoners now held in Britain the total has now reached 268, comprising thirty officers and 238 other ranks. There are also twenty German air force officers and 44 other ranks who are prisoners of war in Britain.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 7
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