SUBMARINE ACTIVITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24419, 3 October 1940, Page 9

SUBMARINE ACTIVITY

BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES NINETEEN IN ONE WEEK • * -.. •LONDON. OcV l. f ' Ap 'Admiralty report sjates that the. . British lost 19 .merqhantmen (i totalling • 131,857 tons; in -the week ’ ended . September. 21 ; T, and-Italian losses .since the .biitbrealt bf { war to September ; ? 29;were -;LQ67,oob,hhd^29l ) ooo tons TespectivglK tons of neutral shipping seized by had-been sunk. - v' - tqtal.. ijf .British, VAffied* ;aira .'neutral Mercantile Josses Hue tb ; ehemy: action ; for the-; week -tended September 22s reached 159,288 tofis,-Which is the< largest recorded 1 , although ’ considerably- below , the Genhan claim of 201,862 tons- These . tosses were principally; due to submarine - activity. . The 27 ships lost comprised 19 British' (totalling tons),- three Allied (13,006 tons) ~ and five neutral (14,425 tons); . ' Spanish Vesreis:Simk r Another Spanish 'ship has .been ■ torpedoed'and sunk by any.ltalian Submarine. This is the 4290-ton ' steamer Monte. Montyayo. -J3he was . torpedoed off Cagliair, in Sicily, bn September 281 Eour of her crew were killed, ‘ 1 , The ■ Spanish trawler Almirante Jose de Carranza was torpedoed, arid sunk by an Italian, submarine , on September- IK there being only one tsurvivor.' Another- Spanish ship; the Cafab Tprtose. - 3302 tons, was pedoed arid: §uhk about the same time;. There is no news Of any survivors. .....