NAZI LOSSES AT SEA
| MAGNIFICENT WORK OF BRITISH SUBMARINES Pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer Torpedoed AT LEAST TEN ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK SOME GERMAN VESSELS SCUTTLED ON BEING STOPPED British submarine successes are announced by the Admiralty and although the locality is not mentioned many of them ' may be taken to relate to operations on the Skagerrak and Kattegat, Daventry reports. British submarines have torpedoed fourteen supply ships, ten of which were known to have been sunk. The submarine Spearfish torpedoed the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer in, the early hours of Thursday morning. The warship was hit probably with more than one torpedo. The German cruiser Karlsruhe was also torpedoed by a British submarine. Two other German ships have been scuttled, one of 6000 tons, on being' stopped by a British cruiser. The other, of 7600 tons, was stopped by a Norwegian destroyer, while a third ship, of 8500 tons, has been captured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1940, Page 6
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153NAZI LOSSES AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1940, Page 6
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