PROTECTED LANES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1942, Page 4

PROTECTED LANES

FOR SHIPPING ON U.S.A. COAST SAFEGUARDS GIVING GOOD RESULTS. INCREASED SURFACE & AIR PATROLS. ■ (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 7. Speaking of the measures taken to reduce submarine attack, the Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) said: “We are now getting the very complete obedience of shipping in the protected lanes for coastwise shipping. We have provided spots for safe anchorage at nights and are constantly enlarging the ' /number of patrol craft. We have considerably enlarged air patrols.” Colonel Knox said 600 patrol craft are under construction at 2 rapid rate, / including 110 80-footers. Furthermore, blimp deliveries are coming along. The \ new blimps (non-rigid airships) are i very valuable. They are small anci ! have *a low rate of speed, but can stay out for a long time and carry depth ' charges'. ; Asked how the war was going for ’. the Navy in the Pacific, Colonel Knox ( said that was too large a question, but i added: “The longer the war lasts the more I am impressed with the fact that ; the American sailor is just as great a ' r sea fighters as ever in the history of America.”

FURTHER LOSSES IN WEST INDIAN WATERS. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) HAVANA, April 7. The newspaper “El Mundo” said today that seven freighters had been torpedoed during the past 48 hours, six of them south of Cape Hatteras and one in the Mona Passage, between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Five were American ships and one British. They varied in size between 1,500 and 2,600 tons.

BRAZILIAN SHIP MISSING AND PRESUMED LOST. FOURTH SINCE BREAK WITH AXIS. (Received This Day, 12.2 p.m.) RIO DE JANEIRO,. April 7. The Government announced that the Brazilian merchantman Capedello, formerly the Prussia, which sailed from Philadelphia on February 14, with 55 persons aboard, is missing and must be presumed to be lost. The Capedello is the fourth Brazilian ship Sunk since Brazil severed relations with the Axis.