THREE U-BOATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 5

THREE U-BOATS

CERTAINLY DESTROYED Az DELECTABLE TRIPLE EVENT. ANNOUNCED BY MR CHURCHILL AT LUNCHEON. Mr Winston Churchill and the new United States Ambassador, Mr J. G. Winant, have both expressed their firm belief, the 8.8. C. reports, that the British Commonwealth and the United States together would in the" future combine to build a new and happier world. The speeches were made at a luncheon in London, at which Mr Churchill proposed the health of the new Ambassador. Mi’ Churchill, referring to the great battle that was developing in the Atlantic, said British shipping had been attacked not only by U-boats but by a German battle-cruiser, which had crossed to the United States side of the Atlantic as far west as 1200 miles from the west coast of Ireland. Only on the previous day, he said, he had received the delectable news of the certain destruction of three German submarines. ADDITIONS TO NAVY NEW CRUISERS & DESTROYERS. It is reported that twelve new cruisers were completed for the British Navy in 1940, a 8.8. C. announcement states. Since the war began twenty new destroyers have been added to the Navy. NAZI PLANS SUBMARINE OPERATIONS. OFF THE UNITED STATES ' COAST. WASHINGTON, March 17. It is learned that the United States has been informed that Germany plans to start submarine operations off the United States coast near New York. According to a foreign source, the German navy is sending a long-range submarine, capable of operating over thousands of miles, to harass shipping off the Atlantic coast. Information about the movements of the submarine have been communicated to the United States, but without actual details of its present location. According to a report it is believed that the primary purpose of sending the submarine within the American zone is to disorganise present shipping lanes, which are increasingly vital to Britain, since the Lend and Lease Bill was passed. The German Embassy declined to comment on the submarine report, but an informed German source said it “must be invention.”