WAR ON SHIPPING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 5

WAR ON SHIPPING

— - -» — MORE NEUTRAL VICTIMS OF NAZIS i — SURVIVORS LANDED IN SPAIN. CONSTRUCTION OF U-BOATS. By Teipgraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. February 20. Fishing boats from La Coruna (Spain) picked up survivors from the two latest victims of the Nazi war against neutral shipping. The crew of 26 of the Greek steamci' Elli (1114 tons), bound for Greece laden with coal from Cardiff, took to their boats after a torpedo’hit the ship. The attacking U-boat then sank her with a second torpedo. Twenty-two of the crew of 29 of the Spanish vessel Banderas (2140 tons) perished after an explosion sank the ship six miles from Cape Pilano (Spain). Two others were seriously injured. A spokesman of the American State Department in Washington said that the German claim that Britain violated Panamanian neutrality by taking the captured German steamer Dusseldorf with prisoners aboard through the Panama Canal is not tenable, as the canal is an international highway. The Swiss newspaper “Journal de Geneve,” says Germany is turning out two submarines every three days, and preparing a fleet of 200 U-boats for Herr Hitler’s “second phase of the naval war.”