GERMAN CLAIM
NINE ALLIED SHIPS SUNK IN ARCTIC. INCLUDING AUXILIARY CRUISER & 3 DESTROYERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 24. A special German communique states that U-boats attacked a convoy between Spitzbergen and Iceland, returning fronußussian harbours to British and American ports. The convoy was composed of more escort vessels than transports. “In hard fighting lasting for several days,” the enemy, communique states, “we sank three destroyers, one auxiliary cruiser and five merchantmen.”
The Berlin radio said that, including the success reported in the special communique, the Germans this month sank 132 ships, totalling 849,000 tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 4
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