BRITISH SUBMARINES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 5

BRITISH SUBMARINES

ATTACKS ON GERMAN CONVOYS NUMBER OF ENEMY SHIPS SUNK. INCLUDING TWO SAILING INDEPENDENTLY. The Admiralty announces, Daventry reports, that torpedo attacks on three German convoys of transports and supply ships have been made by British submarines. Many hits were scored and two ships sailing independently were sunk. The communique states that our submarines had further successes in operations against enemy transports and supply ships. In an attack on a convoy of 10 enemy ships, six torpedoes found their mark. Three hits were made on another convoy, and two on a third. One ship sailing independently was torpedoed and sunk and another was driven ashore, and destroyed by gunfire and torpedoes. ADMIRALTY REPORT THREE CONVOYS ATTACKED. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. The Admiralty announces further submarine successes against enemy transports and supply ships. During an attack against a convoy of 10 enemy ships, six torpedoes struck three ships. Three hits were scored against another convoy and two against a third convoy. One unconvoyed ship was torpedoed and sunk, and another was driven ashore and destroyed by gunfire and a torpedo.