The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
BRITISH ATTACK
NAH BATTLESHIP
Continued from Page One)

coast last Monday with an estimated
loss of 300 lives, the P~oseidonia, and
the Andares.
Sister of Graf Spec
The Admiral Scheer was a sister
ship of the scuttled Admiral Graf
Spec, which was chased into Monte
vledo, Uruguay, last December by
three British destroyers in a battle.
The third ship of the class, the
Deutschland, recently was renamed
the Lutzow. (The British have ex-
pressed scepticism as to whether she
is actually afloat.)
Whether the Admiral Scheer was
sunk was not clear, but the ad-
miralty said the 10, 0O0-ton warship
probably had been hit by more than
one torpedo from the British sub.
marine ~Spearfish.
1t also claimed for the submarine
Truant the sinking of the 6,0OO-ton
German cruiser Karlsruhe, which
Germany already has acknowledged
but which she attributed to No.
Wegian coastal batteries.
The admiralty communique said
some indication of the highly sue.
cessful work in extremely hazardous
conditions of our submarines during
the past week a now be given.
THE German pocket battleship
Admiral Scheer was successfully at
tackled by his majesty's submarine
Spearfish in the early hours Of
Thursday morning, last. 1t is prob.
able that the Admiral Scheer was
hit by more than one torpedo.
Cruiser Sank
H. NJ. S. Truant torpedoed and
sank a German cruiser, believed to
be the Karlsruhe on Tuesday, last.
The sinking of this cruiser has al.
by the Germans.
"Other successes included the sink.
ing of the following German trans
ports and supply ships:
1dlthSl oSSluOllld, o;0ll lCllS.
august Elonhardt, 1888 tons.
"Kreta, 1850 tons.
Rio De Janeiro. 1921 tons.
"Ionia, 3,102 tons.
"Andares, 1888 tons.
"Moorsund, 321 tons.
Also an unknown German ship
of about 1000 tons. Also on April
10 two more unknown German ships
were sunk, and four other German
ships in the convoy were hit by tor.
pedoes, the result being unknown.
I'm addition, the Alster of 8,514
tons. has been captured, and three
trawlers, ~Friesland, Nordland and
Blankenberg have been brought into
a British port.
"All these ships are in addition to
six supply ships and the Rauenfels,
were sunk off Narvik by the
destroyer flotilla on Wednes-
day last, as was announced in the
of commons by the prime
minister.
ScuttllngS
THE following scuttlings have
taken place:
The tanker skagerrak, 6,O44 tons
being sighted by a British cruiser.
THE German ship Maine, of 1924
tons, on being sighted by the Nor
wegian destroyer Draug, who picked
x- CO &c H. o~J oo,rN
ed them to a British port. .
THE Draug now forms part of
the Allied naval forces.
TT has been reported that the
German tanker. Kattegat, has been
sunk by the Norwegians in the
Skagerrak.
ut will be noticed that no men
ton is made of the loss of any u
boats. 1t would be incorrect to as
sumo that positive results have not
been attained"
A broadcast over BIC by British
and Norwegian trade union leaders
asked the Norwegians to help the
British landing force by every
means in their power.
Ut was assumed, however, the
British had cleared out Narvik, the
Arctic ore port, where the British
yesterday reported sinking seven
German destroyers.)
Air Force Strikes
While British troops and navy
were thus engaged, the British air
force struck again at Stavanger,
southwestern Norwegian port, to
keen the German air fleet ground
ed and prevent attacks on northern
British bases.
The swift, surprise-mining of the
Baltic supposedly cut German ships
from trade with Sweden and made
hazardous any effort Adolf Hitler
might make to transport troops to
Sweden to assist in his Norwegian
invasion.
"a British Broadcasting corpora
ton broadcast said the new giant
field, extending to Kiel bay,
German naval base, and reaching
completely across the Baltic to
Lithuania, already was claiming its
victims.
columbia Broadcasting systems
listening station in New York said
Swedish sailors had seen German
transports wrecked by mines off
Lvsekil, on the Swedish west coast.
KILLED and wounded were being
picked up by German minesweep-
RS, the broadcast said.
British soldiers are coming to
assist the gallant Norwegian peo-
,1e in their resistance to the Ger