Evening star., 1940-03-25

ish warcraft in imposing force hov-
cred on the fringe of Scandinavian
territorial waters today, apparently
under orders to stalk or pounce on
every German merchant ship en-
route to or from the blockaded faith
erland.
With three German ships knocked
out in the past four days of inten-
sified British pressure on Ger
many's outermost Scandinavian life
line-one sunk by torpedo, one by
shelling and the third aground
Norway and Denmark again felt the
sharp squeeze of unceasing war at
sea.
Two wounded German sailors were
the only reported human casualties.
The Norwegian Admiralty an
nounced last night that a protest
against violation Of Norwegian
waters by British warships had been
delivered in London. An Oslo conf
munique claimed two encroach-
ments and said a third was under
inquiry.
2,1S9-Ton Freighter Sunk.
The latest success Z; the British
blocksders was the sil ......lt of the
7.1s9-tcn freiehter Edmund Hugo
SHINES, after the pounding of SUBJ
marines gun. The ship was en-
route from Hamburg to Copen-
haeen with cargo Of coal.
The SHINES went down Yesterday
afternoon few miles west of Skagen
northernmost Denmark. at the Kat
tegat entrance Of the Baltic-not far
from where the 4.947-ton ore carrier
Heddernheim sank last Thursday
night as the wars first reported
merchant ship victim of a British
submarine torpedo.
Another victim OF the cat-and-
mouse watch the British Admiralty
has posted along the western shores
Of Denmark and Norway was the
5,000-ton Ostpreussen, run aground
yesterday with a cargo of coke after
three days Of harried crusine off
the Western Danish coast to dodge
British warships.
Beached on Jutland Coast.
The Ostpreussen, bound for
Sweden. had been ordered to double
back to Esbjerg. Denmark, to lie
there out of reach of British SUBJ
marines. Hugging the rugged shore
to escape DETECTION. she struck a
rock and. Win nine feet of water
in her holSs' was beached on the
Jutland coast. The crew remained
aboard.
The Edmund Hugo SHINES like
wise had received home radio orders
to dodge back into Esbjerg. The
ship had almost reached Skagen at
the time. Turning back. the
freighter ran afoul of a British
submarine Saturday night.
The submarine shelled the vessel
then, but it was not until yesterday
afternoon that it went to the bot
tom, about 3 miles of the Danish
shore.
Danish naval authorities sought
to determine whether the ship
actually had been attacked while
within the 3-mile territorial limit,
but it was possible that she drifted
shoreward during the night.
The official German news agency
DNB asserted that the attack took
place in Danish territorial waters.
20 Reach Shore.
Twenty crew members reached the
shore in two lifeboats. They re-
ported that their captain had been
taken prisoner by the British. Two
Of the men had been injured, one
having flesh wound in the arm
and the OTHER having lost three
fingers while attempting to lower
a boat.
Residents of Torsminde, Denmark,
told of hearing a warning shot
across the bow of the Edmund Hugo
SHINES from the submarines deck
gun. They heard four shots in all
and then an explosion which might
have been torpedo or the vessels
boilers.
Members of the ships crew said
(See NAVAL, Page A-16)