GERMAN CRIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1939, Page 5

GERMAN CRIME

NEUTRAL TANKER SUNK WITHOUT WARNING IN BAD WEATHER AND FAR FROM LAND. FIVE MEMBERS OF CREW MISSING (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. November 17. The ruthless character which the Germa n war on shipping' has assumed was illustrated in the torpedoing last Sunday without warning of the Norwegian tanker Arne Kjode by a German Üboat. In this case no attempt was made on the part of the U-boat to save the crew of the torpedoed ship although the weather was bad and the position far from land. The crew of the Arne Kjode took to the boats, but it was not until after more than two days that 23 men in one boat were picked up. They were suffering severely from exposure. Twenty hours later 12 more members of the crew were picked up, but five are still missing. British ships effected these rescues. From evidence obtained it is clear the U-boat could not possibly have taken the Arne Kjode for anything but what she was —a neutral tanker. The action of the submarine constituted a brutal disregard of the rules of submarine warfare to which the Nazi Government pledged itself.