GERMAN FREIGHTER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 5

GERMAN FREIGHTER

TORPEDOED IN KATTEGAT FIRST EPISODE OF KIND IN WAR. MEMBERS OF CREW PICKED UP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 22. The first German merchant ship to be torpedoed in the present war was sunk in the Kattegat, off the east coast of Denmark, late last night, says a Copenhagen message. She is believed to have been a vessel of nearly 5000 tons. The crew of 36 are reported to have taken to the boats and been picked up. DANISH REPORT ENGINEER TAKEN OFF BY SUBMARINE.' (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) COPENHAGEN. March 22. A submarine is reported to have torpedoed a German merchantman, believedly the Heddernheim (4947 tons), fifteen miles east of Frederikshaven. The submarine carried off the first engineer and a coastguard cutter picked up the remaining thirty-five members of the crew. Davenf.ry reports that a British submarine sank a German ship in the Kattegat, eight miles off the east' coast of Jutland. The crew took to the lifeboats after having been warned by the submarine to abandon the ship. The first engineer was taken prisoner by the submarine, prior to the torpedoing of the German ship. The crew lias since reached Denmark. A British auxiliary cruiser has landed at a Scottish port with sixty members of the crew of a German ship.