GERMAN CLAIM
SIX NORWEGIAN SHIPS SUNK. WHILE TRYING TO REACH BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, April 8. A German communique claims that the German Navy and Air Force sank Six of the ten Norwegian ships which, sailing under British captains, attempted to escape from Goteborg, in Sweden, to Britain. The communique adds that German naval forces saved and took prisoner 136 members of the crews of the 'crews ’of t'he Norwegian ships which tried to dash through the Skagerrak. The majority of the crews were British. German patrol boats challenged the vessels outside Swedish waters. The Stortsten and the Gudvang were sunjk in the ensuing artillery duel. The floating shaledil factory, the Skytteren, alsd the Buckaneer and Charente, scuttled themselves. The Dicto and Lionel returned to Goteborg. The Luftwaffe sank the Figmdre. Only the ’ten thousand ton tanker Newton escaped.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1942, Page 4
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145GERMAN CLAIM Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1942, Page 4
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