NORWEGIAN ANGER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 5

NORWEGIAN ANGER

GERMAN WARFARE AGAINST NEUTRAL SHIPPING

INCREDIBLY BRUTAL ATTACKS. SLAUGHTER OF DEFENCELESS SAILORS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. OSLO, February 7. The newspaper “Dagbladet” says that Norwegians feel “quivering, burning wrath" about the German warfare against neutral shipping. “What happens is so incredibly brutal that words cannot be found for it,” the newspaper states. “Our Foreign Office protests to Germany in much the same terms as it protests to other belligerents about the holding up of ships and examination of mails, but the slaughter of defenceless sailors incites us in a way which cannot be compared with the offence taken at the other encroachments.”

SURVIVORS LANDED

CREW OF BRITISH STEAMER.

LAS PALMAS, February 7.

A Spanish steamer landed 54 members of the crew of the British steamer Armac Star, which is not listed at Lloyd.s ARMANIA STAR. TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, February 7. A message from Las Palmas states that the Armac Star cabled earlier is the Armania Star, which was torpedoed without warning off Lisbon on February 3. The crew were rescued. TANKER MINED SHIP LOST IN NORTH SEA. LONDON. February 7. The tanker British Councillor has been mined and sunk in the North Sea. The crew of 45 was rescued and six were admitted to hospital. SWEDISH SHIP BOMBED CREW FLEE ACROSS ICE. STOCKHOLM, February 7. Russian bombers sank the Swedish steamer Wirgo (701 tons) near the Aaland Islands. The crew fled across the ice and refused to take refuge on a nearby island.

CHANNEL SHIP SUNK

PASSENGERS & CREW SAVED. CRACK VESSEL OF IRISH CHANNEL SERVICE. LONDON, February 7. The Munster, the crack ship of the Irish Channel service was sunk, following upon an explosion. All the passengers and members of the crew were saved. A tramp steamer rescued a majority of the 200 aboard, who have already been landed. Twenty were rushed to hospital, suffering from shock and minor injuries. Able Seaman Clure said a terriffic explosion occurred. Boiling water and galley fixtures were flung everywhere. “My lifeboat became waterlogged,” he said. “We were all flung into the water and I was pulled into a motorboat.” Mr Clure added that Captain Paisley did not want to leave the bridge, although he was finally persuaded to enter a boat. The Munster’s distress flares attracted another ship eight miles away and she co-operated with a tramp steamer in the rescue. The Munster sank in a hour and a half. The crew declared that the women and children among the passengers all behaved with perfect calm. A sixteen-year-old deckboy found the captain on the bridge with his arm broken in two places. The boy helped him fit on a lifebelt and persuaded him to leave the ship.

NINETEEN MISSING

ESTONIAN VESSEL MINED

(Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. February 7.

Nineteen are believed to be missing from the Estonian cargo vessel. Anu, 1421 tons, mined in the North Sea. Five of the crew and two women were rescued. SHIPS DETAINED ESTONIA SENDING DELEGATION GERMANY'S HIGH-HANDED ACTION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.47 a.m.) RUGBY, February 7. Germany's high-handed action against neutral shipping in the Baltic is well illustrated by the attitude towards detained Estonian and Latvian vessels. It is reported that Estonia intends sending a delegation to Berlin to discuss the detention in German ports of 19 of her vessels and according to reliable information the owners of Latvian vessels, seized while trading with neutrals have been compelled to sell their cargoes to Germany.