TRANSPORT SUNK

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 5

TRANSPORT SUNK

4000 TROOPS ON BOARD ONLY 100 RESCUED v -4 NAZIS’ HEAVY LOSS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrig-bt) LONDON, Sept. 5 The Gothenburg correspondent of the British United Press states that fishermen report that British warships sank a 12,000-ton German transport off Skagenhorn, at the north end of Jutland. The fishermen saw the vessel sink rapidly. Only about 100 were rescued. The transport is reported to have been carrying 4000 German troops to Norway, and to have been torpedoed by a British submarine. The enemy ship was being escorted by a destroyer and two armed trawlers, but as it was sunk at night it is thought that very few troops were rescued. The Stockholm correspondent of the Times says British naval and air activity is making German navigation precarious along the entire length of the Scandinavian coast. Six merchantmen were destroyed outside Oslo during the week ended August 26 and an oil tanker of 10,000 tons was also sunk in Oslo’s inner fiord. Hundreds of bodies of German soldiers were recently washed ashore between Trondheim and Tromso. It is believed that British submarines have been sinking ships which are transferring men and materials from the Narvik area. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 5 It is estimated that 3000 perished in the German transport when it was sunk. It is now stated that a submarine was responsible.