TANKER TORPEDOED

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 4

TANKER TORPEDOED

35 OF CREW MISSING LISBON, August 16 Fifteen survivors of the tanker British Fame have been landed at Azores. A U-boat torpedoed the tanker, which was bound for South America, killing three of the crew and taking the captain prisoner. Two lifeboats containing 35 of the crew are missing. LONDON TO-DAY DESCRIPTION BY GERMANS BERLIN, August 1G “Air raid alarm after air raid alarm; the howling of sirens and the thunder of guns—that's London to-day.” The foregoing description of the heart of the British Empire is by the Berlin News Agency. DAMAGE IN LONDON RAIDERS MACHINE-GUN STREETS LONDON, August 17 Thousands of city workers were held up by the air raids, which created one of the biggest rush hour hold-ups London has ever known. Queues formed at every bus stop and station gates were closed periodically to relieve the crush on the platforms. Many southwest Londoners arrived at their homes to find them seriously damaged and the furniture wrecked. Between 30 and 40 bombs, including the delayed action type, fell in one suburb, cutting the mission hall in two, demolishing a church, destroying trolleybus lines, and breaking a watermain, which flooded the road. A Jozen high explosives landed in a working class area, burying the residents under debris. Some were killed. .A bomb hit a railway station booking-office, injuring several who were sheltering there. The raiders machine-gunned the streets, breaking windows and dislodging tiles. Bombs and bullets left scarcely a pane of glass in some streets. NUMEROUS SPITFIRES “ROSE LIKE MOSQUITOES” BERLIN, August 1G Commenting on the raids over London the Berlin News Agency said that. Spitfires, seemingly infinite in numbers, rose over London like mosquitoes from a marsh. IViesserschmitts everywhere locked in death struggles against numerically superior enemy planes, but the raiders bombed important war industrial plants. 4000 AERO ENGINES FORD WORKS CONTRACT DETROIT, August 1G Ford Motor Works officials have announced that they have contracted with the American War Department to manufacture 4000 Pratt Whitney aeroplane engines. HOCKEY Hamilton: Kaipaki 3, Old Boys 2. ' RUGBY Hamilton: Half-time, City 7, Technical Old Boys 3, RICCARTQIV RACES Unwin Steeplechase: Slayer, 11,7, *; Billy Brit, 10,5, 2} Erinatlon, 11.13, 3. Scr.; Lactose, _ , i Redcliffs Handicap: I—l Boloyna, 1; 7—7 Iceland Spar, 2; 5—5 Sir Amya*, 3. Scr.: Schoolgirl, Islay Downs, Wierry Simon. ITALIANS HARASSED Fi.A.F. BOMBING ACTIVITIES CAIRO, August 16 “Planes successfully raided Boma yesterday, damaging a number of float pianos, flying boats and petrol dopots,” eays a Royal Air Force communique “A Are was started by igniting the flyingboat Jetty. Two flying boats were sunk and the majority of the remainder were hit. Our planes returned safely. “We also raided the Macaaca, Jigjiga and Dessy© districts in Italian East Africa. Hits were registered on hangars at the Macaaca aerodrome, on buildings in uessye, wnne bombs fell on Duiiaings in Jigjiga causing several fires, tnemy aircrari were left burning on the ground. “The R.A.F. continues to harass the Italian operations in British Somaliland, and they successfully bombed and machine-gunned motor transports and troops on the Bulhar-Zeila Road. POSITION IN BALKANS RUSSIA CONTACTS BULGARIA BUDAPEST, August 16 A Hungarian spokesman said that Hungary presented a plan for Transylvania radically different from anything hitherto suggested and this was the reason for the adjournment of tho talks with Rumania. It is reported from Bucharest that the Bulgarian-Rumanian talks have also been interrupted. Russia is reported to be urging Bulgaria to proceed quietly and collaborate with the Soviet Union.