ATTACK ON U-BOATS
ONE BOMBED NEAR MOUTH OF ELBE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. ANOTHER REPORTED SUNK IN ATLANTIC. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. March 4. The Air Ministry announces that a Royal Air Force plane on reconnaissance duty is believed to have destroyed a U-boat at the mouth of the Elbe River.
The plane sighted a U-boat on the surface in shallow water. Four bombs were dropped, and one registered a direct hit between the conning tower and the stern. After the attack the submarine was seen to be enveloped in a cloud of greyish-black smoke, with only the upper part of its conning tower visible above the water. The submarine was sighted in the Schilling Roads, near the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven.
A message from Rio de Janeiro says that stowaways from the British steamer St Lindsay report that the ship scored a direct hit and sank an attacking submarine six days out from Cape Verde.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 5
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