FREIGHTER SUNK

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21365, 8 March 1941, Page 9

FREIGHTER SUNK

VERY VALUABLE CARGO ATTACK BY NAZI RAIDEI BOUND FOR AMERICA (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrigb NEW YORK, March 6 The British freighter Speybanl bound for Boston and New Yor from the Far East with a millio j dollar cargo of rubber, ti'n, hemj sugar and burlap, was sunk by a Axis warcraft. Marine circles said today that . was assumed a raider got the Spey bank in the Pacific, but there ar no details. Before the war the Spey bank was engaged between Englan and Australia. Built at Glasgow in 1926 by Har land and Wolff. Limited, the Ban Line, Limited’s 5154-ton twrn-scre> motor-ship Speybank first visite Auckland in 1932. It is some tim since she last visited this port. * letter posted in Calcutta on Januar 4 was received yesterday from he master, Captain A. Morrow, by th line’s Auckland agents, Henderso and Macfarlane, Limited. The Spey bank carried phosphates on he voyages to New Zealand. The secon engineer, Mr A. J. Forbes, is a Ne> Zealander, and his wife lives « Holmfield, Wanganui. GERMAN RAIDER PROBABLE BRITISH ATTACK CANNON SHOTS HEARD (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright SANTIAGO, March 6 The lighthouse-keeper at Dungene Point reported to the naval commant at Punta Arenas that he heart several cannon shots. The navy cut ter Micalvi was sent to search, th< region. Maritime circles in Santiago as serted that a 12,000-ton vessel fly ing the Norwegian flag but inannec uy Germans was seen cruising far t< the so&th. Shortly after the shij was seen a British cruiser called a Valparaiso. AXIS AIR LINES AMERICA MAY PURCHASE (Uniter? rress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright WASHINGTON, March 6 Mr Hamilton Fish announced tha he is introducing a bill in the Houst of Representatives authorising th< Administration to purchase Axis com mercial air lines in South Americi for joint operation by the Unitec ; glates and the countries traversed. Mr Fish said Axis air lines crisscross 20,000 miles o I South America constituting a menace to the Unitec States in the event of war or < totalitarian thrust in the Westerr Hemisphere. EX=KING CAROL ARRIVAL IN LISBON ‘United Press v-sn— K'ihp. re: Copyright) LISBON. March 6 Ex-King Carol of Rumania, and Madame Lupescu have arrived at Lisbon and are staying with a doctor friend. The Foreign Office is permitting exKmg Carol to *Wy iade^nrtely.

’ BOMBS ON BRITAIN ) SEVERAL HOUSES DAMAGED , (Official Wireless) (Received March 8, 1 p.m.) RUGBY. March 7 An official communique states: At dusk yesterday enemy aircralt dropped bombs on a town in the west of England. Several houses were damaged and a few casualties ot) were caused. In the early hours of darkness 1 bombs were dropped elsewhere, but did very little damage and no casualrlK ties were reported. on The North Midlands and a western »P» and south-western town were an machine-gunned from a low level by German raiders this afternoon, it A German communique claims that y- a bomber carried out a daring lowre level attack on aircraft works at y- Filton. Heavy bombs destroyed ad hangars and several finished planes were damaged by cannon. One person was killed and several ir - injured when a raider bombed East Anglian town. Several housst iw were wrecked and many people were ec j buried under the debris, ne 2 CHURCH DESECRATED he on y- HOLY VESSELS STOLEN er ad PROTEST IN AMERICA at (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received March 8, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 7 The former Ambassador. Mr W. Bullitt, to-day appealed to Ameri- « cans for contributions to replace tne holy vessels stolen from the Catholic Church of St. Louis, at Moscow, which Mr Bullitt said was the only one in all Russia “to which a foreigner may freely go to Mass.” ‘ On three occasions recently the church was entered by force, desees crated and the sacred vessels stolen, id although the church is near the head’d quarters of the Ogpu, which is the t- most powerful and ruthless police in ie the world. Mr Bullitt pointed out that the s - freedom of religion was guaranteed by the Soviet in documents exchanged id wit hthe United States before diploto matic recognition, ip al PRISONERS OF WAR PROBLEM OF QUISLINGS NORWEGIANS IN BRITAIN (United Press .\s*n. —r::ec. th. copyrtrtit) LONDON, March 7 The Daily Telegraph says the 10 Quislings in prison from the Lofoten Islands have set a legal problem. British law prescribes death for se . traitors, but there had been no ie ] executions in Norway for 70 years j before the. Germans arrived. Moreover, there is no precedent for ** i Britain to punish another country’s ' j traitors. s “ The German prisoners are being I treated as prisoners of war. d j A Stockholm message says the first a result of the raid was a widespread n increase in loyalist activities. DETAINED IN PRISON NORWEGIAN QUISLINGS ) (United Pre-« —ev»c. th c.tpvnifHf (Received March 8. 1 p.m.) d LONDON. March *? it It is understood that !0 Quislings. •r who were captured in the raid on Lofoten Island, will be detained li - prison as long as the Home Sea clary deems it necessary.