The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-08


  and in addition to the nine sunk three more were reported attacked by German submarines but were be- lieved safe, and one German sub- marine was reported destroyed, with its crew.
 Great Britain, which is master oi the seas but not of raiding German submarines, had lost five merchant men, all victims of submarines. Brit' ish warships had sunk three Ger man ships. Neutral Greece had lost one, the Kosti, which struck Ger man mine in the Baltic.
 The ministry of information al London announced that 54 German merchant ships totaling l80,000 tons were docked at Vigo, Spain, and nine, totaling 6o,ooo tons, at Jap anese ports.
 Casualties In Sinking
 The casualties were:
 September 3-German cargo shir Olinda shelled and sunk by Brit ish cruiser off the coast of Uru- quay after crew had been removed
 September 3 - British liner Athe. mia torpedoed of Ireland, 128 be. lieved lost from her 1,400 passen. gers and crew members, including 300 Americans.
 September - Greek freightel sunk by mine of coast of Sweden; crew of 29 saved.
 September - British steamer Bosnia torpedoed of Scotland; ont of crew killed.
 September 6 - British freightel Maneer, carrying hidden cannons or deck, attacked by four submarine! off Portuguese coast and sunk: 5l rescued, 42 missing from her crew.
 Sept, 6German freighter Car Fritzen reported sunk in mid-At lantic by British warships; Britain announced crew saved but gave n, details.
 Sept. 6-North German Lloyt liner Inn, out of Hamburg, cap tured by British warships in mid Atlantic and reported scuttled b. her crew while 35 passengers, includ ing woman, and crew were beinl taken aboard warship.
 Sept. 6-Admiralty reports Brit ish merchant ship Royal Sceptr, sunk; reports crew rescued but give no details.
 Sept. 7-British freighter Oliv, Grove torpedoed of Cobh, Ireland James Barnetson of Leith and crev of 22 Englishmen and II Scots res cued by United States liner Wash ington enroute to Europe to return stranded Americans. One Sub Is Sunk
 The British admiralty announces ktersely that one German submarine had been discovered laying mine and apparently was disposed of, bu gave no details.
 The United States liner American Farmer, bound for Europe to picl up American refugees, reported sub marine attacks on the 5,809-ton Brit ish ship Pukkastan, AS miles south east of Lands End, England, and of the 3,757-ton French ship Tamara 100 miles west of oporto. Portugal The American Farmer apparent! picked up messages from those ship and relayed them. Both were be- lieved to have escaped the attackers
 It was announced in London tha the s. 8. Corinthic had been at tackled by Q submarine but has reached port safely.
 Details of the sinking of the Brit ish ship Manaar, as reported in Lis bon by Portuguese seamen whl picked up some of the survivors. in' dicated that the Britons had fires on one of the four attacking sub marines.
 Sinking of ManaaF The Manaar, 6 7,232-top vessel had left Liverpool September 2 atis was 90 miles from Cape Roca whel the submarines appeared. ct dawI Wednesday. Hidden guns on tn ships deck were stripped for action Most of the casualties were believes to have been suffered in the ensuing battle. The Dutch steamer Mar picked up three boats of survivor and took them to Lisbon. The PoT tuguese steamer Carvalho picked uI i6 more survivors. 10 of them wound ed by shell fragments and took then to Lisbon, leaving 42 of the Mama crew unaccounted for and appar ently lost.
 Later. however. the ships opera tors announced at Liverpool tha seven European officers and 90 Las cars Of the Manaar's crew were un accounted for, reducing the Mst c missing to s7.
 The crew of the British ship Oliy Grove. rescued by the Washington