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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1939, Page 5

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TOTAL NOW PLACED AT 22 FRENCH RADIO REPORT. CLOSE NAVAL CO-OPERATION WITH BRITAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, October 17. It is officially stated in Paris that at least one of the submarine's responsible for the sinking of three ships of the French Merchant Marine over the weekend has been sunk. The radio states that the total number of German submarines sunk is 22. The French Navy held up 25,000 tons of goods destined for Germany in the second week in October. It is officially announced that the casualties resulting from the sinking of the Bretagne were five members of the crew; two passengers are missing. The whole crew of the Emile Miguel were saved. One was killed in the sinking of the Louisiane. A further example of the close cooperation between the British and French forces is instanced today by a, report from “Observer,” which states that in a remote harbour in Britain he saw grey-painted trawlers flying the tricolour ensign of the French Navy. These ships are fitted with depth charges and other anti-sub-marine equipment, and work in conjunction with British naval trawlers similarly fitted out. Thus the White Ensign and the Tricolour fly within a few feet of each other. A Belgian oil-tanker landed in' Britain today 32 members of the crew of the British steamer Sneaton, which was sunk by a submarine in the Atlantic last Saturday. A fireman was killed. The Danish setariner Silicien has arrived at Stornoway with 27 survivors from a Greek ship, sunk by a submarine in the Atlantic. Two members of the crew were killed and seven of ( the survivors injured. | Copenhagen reports that a German < pilot boat was blown up when she hit J a German mine south of Oresund. Some of the crew were rescued. j The “New York Times” Mexico ( City correspondent states that a Ger- j man firm is quietly buying all available barrels and metal drums, and has contracted the entire output of one plant of 100 daily, strengthening the belief that German agents in Mexico are either refuelling or preparing to refuel German vessels in the Caribbean Sea. A message from San Juan (Vene- g zuela), however, says that the United States’ patrol in the Eastern Caribbean since September 12 has not re- c vealed any foreign submarines. t