Evening star., 1939-11-26
Naval Auxiliary,
U-boot Trop,
Declared Sunk
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER.

BERLIN, Nov. 25.-Nazi Germany
tonight claimed for its bombing
planes a signal success against the
British Navy-square hits on four
warships in the North Sea.
D. N. B., the official German news
agency, said the attack occurred $50
miles from the German coast.
Eluding heavy fire from anti
aircraft guns, D. N. B. said, the
German planes returned safely. The
D. N. B. account ended there, giving
no additional particulars.
On mileage computation as an
nounced by D. N. B., the attack
would have occurred somewhere in
the area of the Shetland Islands or
the Orkneys. The huge British
naval base, Scapa Flow, is located
in the Orkneys.
Warship Declared Sunk.
The high command asserted a
German submarine had sunk IAN
English U-boat trap, an auxiliary,
7,000-ton warship," and the press re-
called with bitter phraSs Britain's
World War use of such mystery
ships.
In its daily communique the high
command said the U-boat trap
was camoufiaged as Dutch steam
er" and the press, which termed
this particularly detestable," added
that she went down lin waters north
of England"
In London nothing was pub
isf1ed concerning the German
claim and no comment was avail
able. During the World War the
British Navy used camouf1aged
ships known as Q-boats in the
fight against submarinesD
The press used the occasion to
recall the World War snares, which
were described as constituting 'one
OF the worst chapters in British bar
barity and hypocrisy" and praised
the submarine crew, which, it said,
had escaped IAN insidious act"
Press Urges Ships Avoid Britain.
German press propaganda at the.
same time hammered away at an
other point-that neutral shipping
must avoid the British Isles.
Germany proposes, in other words,
to turn the tables on Britain as
compared to 1914 by starving her
out rather than let her starve the
Reich.
One of the most outspoken dailies.
Schlesische Zeitung of Breslau, de-
clared:
I'VE are firmly convinced we will
succeed in defeating England with
her own weapons, reverse the block
ade dart aimed at us and isolate this
pestilential island"
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung dis
cussed "the dangerous lanes" lead
ing to the British Isles and adjured
neutrals to follow the United States
example of forbidding American
ships to go there.
Nachtausgabe used as the banner
line: Ship Communication From
and to England Impossible"
Artillery Fire Weak.
In the west the high command
noted only local scouting activity
and weak artillery fire on several
points of the front"
DNB, official German news agen-
cy, amplified this with a report that
the enemy busily dug positions at
Apach, Kitzing and Manderen. all
within France near the junction of
the German, French and Luxem-
bourg frontiers.
1t said German artillery ham,
mered positions in the Perl Forest,
in the same district, and south of
Manderen. French artillery of me-
dlum and heavy caliber, it added,
aimed at annoying German scouting
troops.
DNB reported the loss of seven
German airplanes in scouting
flights which it said occurred yes
terday over Western France.
(No German losses were given
IN French reports, but the French
communique of Friday asserted
eight German war planes had
been doWned over France on
Thursday
1t said four presumably" were
shot down, two made emergency
landings, and one was missing"