CONFLICT AT SEA
U=BOAT REPORTED SUNK BRITISH ARMED VESSEL ALSO LOST. SOME UNCERTAIN DETAILS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) OSLO, April 8. A British warship is reported to have sunk a U-boat off Lillesand. Four unidentified bodies were found on a beach. Three Norwegian ships later arrived at Lillesand. carrying nine bodies and sixteen English and German seamen, some of whom were in uniform. Members of the crew declared that a British armed vessel was sunk as well as a U-boat. A warship is reported to have engaged two U-boats. A single heavy explosion was heard at noon and others at 3 p.m.. further seaward. Several planes circled the area. The other U-boat escaped. Customs guards saw a tanker of unknown nationality torpedoed at 3 p.m. off Sandefjord, south of Stavanger. The Gothenburg and Kreta were attacked by an enemy submarine in the Skagerrak. but are still afloat,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 5
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151CONFLICT AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 5
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