ENEMY SUBMARINES
ACTIVE OFF U.S.A. COAST A TANKER TORPEDOED. MANY SURVIVORS RESCUED. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) NEW YORK. January 15. The Navy has announced that the 0,500-ton tanker Norness was torpedoed 150 miles from New York off Long Island. Fourteen of the survivors were land by the United States destroyer Ellison and later admitted to a hospital at New London, Connecticut. Twenty-five members of the crew landed at other points. The owners of the tanker stated that there were forty-one members of the crew aboard, all being Scandinavians.
A Navy spokesman disclosed that the Navy flashed alert warnings along the coast from Canada to Panama following the attack on the. Norness. The Naval Department has been informed that enemy submarines are active especially along the east coast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1942, Page 4
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128ENEMY SUBMARINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1942, Page 4
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