WAR ON U-BOATS
FIVE SUNK LAST WEEK BY AIR FORCE AND NAVY. BRITISH SHIPS OVERDUE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, December 11. According to an authorised statement the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy destroyed five enemy submarines last week. It is officially stated that the following British ships are overdue and must now be considered lost: Ashlea (4,222 tons). Newton Beech (4,651 tons), Huntsman (8,196 tons), Trevanion (5,299 tons). A wireless operator was playing cards when the British steamer Willowpool was mined in the North Sea. He managed to send out a S.O.S. before the apparatus was disabled. The whole of the crew reached a lightship and were landed at an East Coast port. Several were slightly injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8
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124WAR ON U-BOATS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8
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