U. BOATS ACTIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1942, Page 3

U. BOATS ACTIVE

OPERATIONS NEAR AMERICAN COAST 250 MISSING FROM TORPEDOED SHIP. HUNT BY PATROL VESSELS. (Ev Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK. January 28. Two hundred and fifty passengers and crew are missing from the Canadian National steamship Lady Hawkins (8009 tons), which was torpedoed by an enemy submarine, a message from Sun Juan, Porto Rico, states. Another ship picked up 71 survivors after they had spent six days in -the lifeboats. Five died in the lifeboats. The survivors stated that 200 persons were swept overboard when the torpedoes struck. The Lady Halifax was en route from Halifax to Bermuda when she was attacked without warning before dawn on January 19. It was the eleventh ship to be attacked off the east coast of the United States. The survivors who were picked up have been landed at San Juan by the United States steamer Coamo. Ottawa reports that 33 survivors from the crew of 50 of a torpedoed British tanker have been landed there by a British freighter after 33 hours in an open lifeboat. The tanker was the third U-boat victim in the North Atlantic in the past 24 hours. The o_thcrs were a Norwegian tanker and a Greek freighter. Port Arthur. Texas, reports that a complete blackout of a 100 mile strip of the Texas coast was ordered after a naval announcement that two German submarines were probably operating off South Texas. One submarine was seen lying on the surface, and it submerged after a second submarine four miles to the east released a warning smoke bomb. The second submarine then also submerged. A patrol of 21 naval planes is seeking the vessels.