U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1940, Page 5

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

THE QUESTION OF BASES IN EIRE REGARDED AS DELICATE. ITALIAN CRAFT OPERATING IN ATLANTIC. IBy Telegraph-—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON. November 7. The “Daily Telegraph” says it is understood that the Government is giving careful attention to the question of temporarily leasing the principal air and naval bases in Eire. The question is very delicate because of .Eire’s determination to do nothing likely to jeopardise her policy of strict neutrality.

The auxiliary cruiser Patroclus was sunk by a U-boat when rescuing the survivors of the auxiliary cruiser Laurentic. This was disclosed when 631 officers and men. from the two ships were landed at a Scottish port. The German news agency says that the French Mediterranean -squadron has completed manoeuvres off the south of France. Admiral Darlan expressed satisfaction at the success of the operation. The Italian radio has confirmed the Bremen radio's statement that Italian submarines have passed the Straits of Gibraltar and are co-operating with U-boats in the Atlantic. It added that the Italians have taken over the southern approaches of the Atlantic from the U-boats, which were now concentrated in the north Atlantic. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, broadcasting to South Africa, said that almost the whole Dutch Navy was saved and working for the Allies. Able-bodied Dutchmen in England had been called up for training in the Netherlands Legion. The Dutch Government was also forming a legion in Canada, for which training was already well advanced.