Evening star., 1939-09-28
Second Sub Attack
On Soviet Ships in
7 Days Reported
Unidentified Undreseu
Boot Forced Steamer
On Rocks, Coptoin Rodio:
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Sept. 28.-The official
Soviet agency, Tass, today reported
the second attack in two days by an
unidentified submarine on Soviet
shipping near Estonia.
II The agency said the captain of the
967-ton Soviet steamer Pioner
radioed that an unidentified sub
marine had forced him to run onto
the rocks of Vigrund Bank while
trying to enter Narva Bay. The bay
is on Estonia's northern coast.
A salvage expedition was dis
patched to aid the Pioner, whose
crew was reported in no danger.
Russia said yesterday that mys-
terious submarine had sunk the
Soviet steamer Metallist in the same
general region. The announcement
conceded with Soviet press attacks
on Estonia accusing her of harbor-
ing foreign warships. Estonian re-
lations received attention while
Soviet negotiations were under way
with Germany and Turkey.
Farley Is Resumed.
The German-Russian parley was
resumed this afternoon in the Krem-
lin, where Joseph Stain, Premier
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff
Molotoff and German Foreign Min
lister Joachim Won Ribbentrop con-
ferred from 3 pm. q am, E. S. T.
until $50.
Their first meeting, four-and-
a-half-hour affair, ended early to-
day.
Meanwhile, the Moscow diplo-
matte corps wondered anxiously
whether these conference portended
another quick shift in Europe's bal
ance of power.
Soviet leaders gave banquet to-
night in Won Ribbentrop's honor.
Informed persons said the Turkish
foreign minister, Sukru Saracoglu,
had decided to remain for two or
three days instead of leaving for
home tonight, as previously planned.
Apparently he intended to stay until
after Won Ribbentrop's departure.
A third foreign minister in Moscow
was Karl Setter of Estonia, believed
to be here in connection with Rus
sian demands on his little republic
All this made Moscow Europes chief
diplomatic center.
Push Demands on Estonia.
Unofficial reports persisted that
Russia was making demands upon
Estonia for fortification concessions
in Estonian waters on the Gulf of
Finland and the Baltic Sea.
Relations with Estonia were en-
phasized last night by broadcast
reporting the sinking of the Metal
list of the northern coast of Es-
tonia. Nineteen of her crew of "a
were reported rescued.
(The Russian announcement
described the freighter as YES
sci of 1000 tons, but the only ship
of that name listed in Lloyd's
register is a Russian freighter
built in 1929, of 968 tons)
The Soviet press attacked once
Russian-ruled Esto1Iia, declaring
that the little Baltic state harbored
naval bases for foreign powers. The
dispute with Estonia went back to
the escape of the Polish submarine
Orzel from Tallinn harbor last week.
The Orzel had been interned at the
Estonian capital.
It was learned that Estonian rep
resentatives were summoned to
talks at the Kremlin some time In
the night.
Among the persistent unofficial re-
ports of Soviet demands on Estonia
was one which said Russia sought
certain privileges in Estonia her
self, possibly establishment Of ma
val base at Tallinn.
For Won Ribbentrop this was the
second visit to Moscow in little more
than month. On August % Soviet
Russia and Germany confounded
the rest of Europe when they nego-
tiated a non-aggression pact.
Only few hours after his plane
landed the German diplomat entered