U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1942, Page 3

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

IN THE WESTERN ATLANTIC & ELSEWHERE HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE ON BRITISH SHIP. U-BOAT SUNK BY PLANE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, September 21. The Associated Press of America says that sinkings of Allied ships in the western Atlantic, excluding the northern Atlantic, now total 471 since December 7. The Navy Department in Washington announced the loss of an American and a British merchantman in the north Atlantic. There were only 10 survivors from the British ship. Twenty-seven were killed and 16 died from extreme cold during four days in a lifeboat. A Lisbon message states that a plane escorting a British ship which was torpedoed off the southern coast of Portugal sank the U-boat responsible. Thirty survivors from the ship landed at Setubal. A Portuguese destroyer is searching for other survivors. A submarine of unknown nationality sank a Portuguese trawler off the coast of Portugal. A fishing-boat, saved the crew. Another Portuguese trawler entered the Duero River after being chased by a submarine.