GERMAN SHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1939, Page 7

GERMAN SHIPS

BEING SWEPT FROM HIGH SEAS MANY VESSELS CAPTURED. BRITAIN TO USE BELLIGERENT RIGHTS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, September 9. The Ministry of Information states that virtually all German merchantmen have been swept from the high seas. Many have been captured. Frequently the crews scuttled the vessels before abandoning ship. The Ministry emphasises that the crews invariably reached safety. The Ministry> announced yesterday that Britain will use her belligerent rights to the full in order to prevent war materials reaching Germany. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that a message from the Netherlands steamer Breedyk reported that the British tanker Kennebec was torpedoed and sunk. The entire crew of 32 was saved by the Breedyk. The location was not given. . Ten Finnish ships carrying •cellulose and timber for English and other ports passed through German minefields in the Baltic Sea, states a message from Helsinki. The authorities at Lisbon w have closed down the wireless sets of all ships taking refuge in Portuguese 1 Spain has interned 30 German merchantmen and dismantled their wireless sets. TWO SHIPS SUNK ALL MEMBERS OF CREWS SAVED. TWO VESSELS ELUDE ATTACKERS (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, September 10. A Ministry of Information communique states that the British steamers Winkleigh and Goodwood have been torpedoed and sunk. All members of the crews were rescued, several of the Goodwood’s crew were injured and the captain’s legs broken. Submarines chased the Warwick Castle and Chloris but they eluded the The German merchantmen Baldur and Vegesack are reported to have gone ashore on the Norwegian coast.