NAZI BATTLESHIP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 March 1941, Page 5

NAZI BATTLESHIP

REPORTED IN PACIFIC SHANGHAI CORRESPONDENT’S STORY. SIGNIFICANT DEPARTURE OF MERCHANTMEN. <By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 29. The International News Agency’s Shanghai correspondent says that authoritative circles declare that a German battleship, the Scharnhorst or the Giensenau, is at present in the Pacific, giving rise to fears of an impending large-scale action. One Nazi pocket-battleship remains in the Atlantic, and the German merchantman. Ramses, which has been anchored at Shanghai since the outbreak of the war. has suddenly departed. ITALIAN WARSHIP OBSERVED IN JAPANESE PORT. MAY HAVE BEEN LAYING MINES. 1 NEW YORK, March 28. The correspondent of the United Press states that passengers on the liner President Jackson reported sighting off the Kobe breakwater a weather-beaten Italian warship. The ship was anchored. She Hew the Italian flag, and the name "Eritrea" was easily discernible. The Eritrea is fitted for minelaying, and sailors speculated whether or not she had been minelaying in Australian waters. DEPARTURES. FROM BRAZIL ENEMY SHIPS TRY TO RUN BLOCKADE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) RIO DE JANEIRO, March 29. Three Axis merchantmen left Brazilian ports last night, apparently in a co-ordinated effort to penetrate the British blockade. The German freighter Dresden has not reported for 11 hours since sailing from Santos with a crew of 50. A British armed cruiser left port some time before her. The Italian oil tanker, Franco Martelli. left Recife with a cargo of oil and a crew of 60. The Italian freighter | Frisco, with a crew of 30. also depart-i ed.