Overdue and Sunk

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 308, 30 December 1939, Page 7

Overdue and Sunk

Further Shipping Losses CREWS ALSO FEARED DROWNED United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 7.40 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 29. Tho owners announce that the Moor toft is several days overdue and is presumed lost with all thirteen of tho crew. A naval trawler with a crew of fifteen is also presumed lost. The Danish vessel Hanne was sunk by a mine off the north-east coast with a crew of fifteen. The number rescued is not known. A lifoboat found one of the ship’s boats floating upside down. DISTORTED NAZI CLAIMS LONDON GIVES CORRECT FIGURES Received Friday, 9.40 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 29. An official statement issued in Berlin says that ciurn and neutral ni") chantmen losses during the war total 270 vessels, of 1,039,000 tons. Germany lost 18 ships, totalling 120,000 tons, of which only one was sunk by the enemy. “After the sinking of the Graf Spec, numerous* contributions towards t. e cost of another, havo been r3C-u\cl by the High Command from homo and abroad. ’ ’ Replying to the Berlin claims, it is authoritatively stated in London that shipping sinkings to De ember 27 were: Ships Tons British HI 422,000 French •••••• 12 56,000 Polish •••••• 1 14,000 Noutral 81 252,000 German 23 139,000 In addition 20 German ships totalling 89,000 tons have been captured.