GERMAN CLAIMS
REPORT THAT HAD TO BE CORRECTED “SINKING” OF VESSEL LOST IN JUNE. ATTACK ON A CONVOY. (By Telegraph—Press Associaiton—Copyright I LONDON, December 3. A German communique claimed that U-boats attacked a convoy en route to Britain yesterday and sank an escorting auxiliary cruiser, the Caledonia, and 15 merchantmen totalling more than 110,000 tons. Another U-boat, it was claimed, sank two freighters, including the tanker Victor Ross (12,247 tons), making a total of 160,000 tons sunk on that day. After the British Admiralty pointed out that H.M.S. Scotstoun (formerly the liner Caledonia) was admitted to have been sunk on June 14, the German news agency issued an urgent correction to the communique, substituting “an auxiliary cruiser” for the Caledonia. The German news agency also stated ihat the appearance of German surface naval units in the Indian and Pacific Oceans was forcing Britain to take new security measures. The British United Press, reports from Berlin that a neutral sources estimates that at least 100 U-boats are operating.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1940, Page 7
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