SUCCESSES AT SEA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1941, Page 6

SUCCESSES AT SEA

AGAINST ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN & OFF NORWAY. CONTRIBUTION BY FRENCH SUBMARINE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY. April 22. Successes against enemy supply ships are recorded by the Admiralty ar)d the Free French Naval Headquarters. The Admiralty states that the Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean reports a series of recent successes by naval aircraft against supplies intended for the enemy armies in the Balkans. Among these successes are a tanker of about 10,000 tons torpedoed, a supply ship of about 6,000 tons torpedoed, and an ammunition ship of about 7,000 tons torpedoed. The ammunition ship blew up with a tremendous explosion and columns of fire rose three thousand feet in the air. One naval aircraft is missing from these operations. The Free French headquarters announce that the submarine Minerve, of the Free French naval forces, carried out a successful attack on a large tanker off the Norwegian coast. The tanker was probably sunk, although this could not be established, as the Minerve had to take avoiding action to defeat a counter-attack by the escort.