IDENTITY SETTLED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 7

IDENTITY SETTLED

INDIAN OCEAN RAIDER DECLARED TO BE ADMIRAL SCHEER. GERMAN POCKET BATTLESHIP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. November 18. The Cape Town correspondent ol "The Times” states that the identity o:t the German raider, reported off Portuguese East Africa, has been definitely established as the Admiral Scheer. A special representative of a Lourenco Marques newspaper flew to Inhambam and showed members of the A trie:. Shell crew a selection of warship pictures from which everyone selected the. Admiral Scheer as the attacker.

Two German liners, the Windhuk (16.662 tons) and the Adolf Woermann (8577 tons) left the port of Lobito Bay. Portuguese West Africa, where theyhave taken refuge since the outbreak of the war, under cover of darkness recently, a radio message reports. Both vessels belong to the Woermann Line, one of the largest German shipping companies. Their destination it unknown. Their sudden departure after weeks of inactivity has caused considerable speculation in Lobito Bay. It is being suggested that they 7 have been summoned to a rendezvous with the German raider which disclosed its. whereabouts by recently- sinking the (British tanker Africa Shell inside Portuguese territorial waters 180 miles north-east of Lourenco Marques.

SCUTTLED BY CREW GERMAN VESSEL HALTED BY BRITISH PATROL. LONDON, November 19. The captain and 57 seamen landed a a Scottish seaport as the result ol’ t German vessel being scuttled when i. British patrol vessel ordered her ti stop. The crew took to the boats ana were picked up. NEUTRAL TRADERS NAZI ALLEGATION DENIED BY BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. November 18. A complete denial is given in official quarters in London to the suggestion by the German radio that the British Government has warned merchants that if they continue to trade with Germany their trade with Britain will be interrupted, and that the credits due to the Greeks in London will be confiscated. The sympathetic attitude of the British Government to neutral trading rights has been repeatedly emphasised in statements of responsible British Ministers.