U-BOATS SUNK

Southland Times, Issue 24828, 21 August 1942, Page 5

U-BOATS SUNK

ATTACKS ON VESSELS FROM BRAZIL

(Rec. 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 19. Brazilian officials announced that United States patrol planes yesterday sank a German submarine which is believed to have been responsible for sinking some of the five Brazilian vessels. Brazilian planes also sank another submarine nearby, about 50 miles from the coast. Survivors from two torpedoed Brazilian ships have arrived at Bahia (Brazil). They reported that a submarine which torpedoed one passenger ship within sight of the coast waited for an hour and then destroyed a second vessel while it was picking up survivors from the first ship. The Brazilian Government has ordered all Brazilian vessels in the coastal service to proceed to the nearest safe port and remain there until the submarine menace is overcome. Soldiers on leave have been recalled urgently to duty and the Navy has forbidden furloughs for regular reserves. The United Press correspondent at a New England port says a German surface raider of 9000 tons, using two tor-pedo-boats in a pincers attack, sank a medium-sized American merchantman in the first such attack of the present war. Fifteen members of the crew are believed to have been killed and 20 were taken aboard the raider. Eleven wounded men were rescued by a United Nations merchantman after sailing 450 miles in a life-boat. The survivors said the attack occurred at night in the South Atlantic. It was launched simultaneously from three sides. Sixty rounds of heavy shells were fired by the raider as the torpedo-boats fired four torpedoes and machine-gunned the < merchantman.