The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-14


 strcyers will use TouIon mad other French naval ports to take on sup. plies. Royal. Air Force pilots will Dc allowed to use French military air fields.
 Similarly, French planes will land on British aircraft carriers and air fields, such as Malta.
 No Rigid Rules
 No rigid rules regarding zonlng in the Mediterranean were confined in the instructions to the British and French adnlirals. Thus a Brit ish destroyer may proceed to the scene of Q submarine attack within the French zone if the British ship IS nearer than the French, while the FreKich may send warships into the British zone whenever required.
 The British destroyers Blanche, Brilliant, Brazen and Beagle and the cruiser Cairo sailed from Inver- gordon, Scotland for sheerness to- day to join the destroyers Basilisk, Boreas, Boadicea and Bulldog. From there they will sail for the Mediterranean to bring the British destroyer patrol to the full strength of 10.
 The fleet includes four 1lotilla leaders.
 Doubtful Reports
 British authorities were doubtful over reports that 6 British hattle- ship had captured a pirate" Sub- marine in the Mediterranean.
 The report was that the battle- ship Malaya, on its way from Salo- nika, Greece, to the nearby Island of Lemnos, encountered and seized a pirate" submarine suspected of having sunk Russian oil tanker shortly before.
 The admiralty here insisted that 1t had no information and there was no confirmation from other sources.
 Later, 1t was said that the Malaya arrived at Mudros, Lemnos Island, and made no report of such an in- cident. It was added that the ad- miralty placed no credence in the report.
 True or untrue, the report pro- vided food for a third mystery in recent days regarding the fate of pirate" submarines, operating in the Mediterranean, preying on mer. chantmen in behalf of the Spanish Nationalists.
 Other Report
 First there was the submarine that attacked the British destroyer Havock. The Havock and another destroyer dropped depth bombs in- tended to sink or disable this sub. marine. The admiralty had mo in. formation" but reports from Gibral. tar left little doubt that the de- stroyer crews believed they had sunk the submarine.
 Next was the submarine reported disabled by Spanish Loyalists 8 lit- tie down the east coast of Spain from the scene of the Havock at- tack. Loyalists closed all avenues of information from Cartagena, their east coast naval base, as re. gards, the success of divers in seek. ing this submarine. @
 Todays reports had as their chief basis a Salonika dispatch to the newspaper Politika of Belgrade. It was asserted that the Salonika not only captured the submarine but identified its entire crew as Italian.
 Crew Was on Shore
 According to the Politika report. the Malaya was in salonika l1arbor and half the crew wre ashore ct . football game when news of the pirate" attack on the Russian tanker was received. It was said that the ship to to sea, raced down to position of the Gulf of Volos where the attack was sup- posed to have been made, and train- ing its guns on the submarine cap- tured 1t without 6 shot.
 First news of the report was tele- phoned to Geneva last night from the newspaper Politika to it's for eign editor, attending the Mediter- ranean conference and the league of nations meetings. The foreign editor was informed that Green and Jugoslavian governments forbade publication of the report, but ap- parently 1t was released this morn. ing for Politika published 1t briefly.