SAFE AT MURMANSK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 3

SAFE AT MURMANSK

GREAT ALLIED CONVOY WAR SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA. NAZI ATTACKS BEATEN OFF WITH LOSS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 31. A great Allied convoy laden with tanks,, munitions and planes, mostly from the United States, has reached Murmansk, Russia’s Arctic port, after withstanding three attacks by U-boats, dive-bombers and German warships, says the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” British cruisers, destroyers and an aircraft-carrier protected the convoy. German planes first spotted the convoy on March 27 north-west of Tromsoe, Norway, and summoned Junkers and German destroyer squadron. Fighters of the British Fleet Air Arm and a barrage from the convoy drove off the first attack. A snow storm was raging when the German destroyers arrived, and one German destroyer and one smaller vessel were sunk and another was set on fire. “Dive-bombers from Kirkenes and Petsamo, reinforced by U-boats and by the remainder of the German destroyer flotilla, made the third attack on the convoy as it entered Kola Bay. Russian fighters from Murmansk helped the convoy to get through after a full-scale battle.