ATTACK ON U-BOATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1942, Page 3

ATTACK ON U-BOATS

—9 OPERATING ON AMERICAN COAST SEVERAL PROBABLY SUNK. AMERICAN ARMY REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! NEW YORK, February 16. The Army announced the probable destruction of an enemy submarine off the Atlantic coast early this month by an army patrol bomber which attacked | while the submarine was on the sur-> face during a rainstorm and loosed several bombs. Later an oil patch appeared on the water. It was the first official account of counter-action against the submarines operating off the Atlantic coast. The probable sinking of two other enemy submarines off the east coast of Canada is also reported. COMMANDER’S STORY SURVEY OF NEW YORK HARBOUR. LONDON, February 17. The Berlin news agency released the story of a cruise by a U-boat commander, Lieutenant-Kapitan Hardegan, who claimed to have reached the “entrance” to New York. He said: “We were amazed as we looked on the city and saw Long Island's piers and the ceaseless coming and going of harbour craft. We sank ten ships, totalling 66,000 tons, off the American coast, including the tanker Nordess.” (The United States Navy Department admitted the loss of the Nordess on January 15.)