The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-08
Axis Powers Playing
 Havoc In Sea Lanes
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forces" had destroyed completely in the North Atlantic a British convoy totaling 860o0 tons of ships in a single action.
 (The communlque was taken as explaining reports that a German sea raider of the 10000 ton, 11-inch gun class was spreading destruction through the North Atlantic shipping lane between the Canada and United States and Great Britain.
 (London reported that the Berlin radio interrupted musical program to broadcast the following version of the com1ntinique:
 ("Surface craft of the German navy operating in the Atlantic com pletely destroyde an enemy convoy in the North Atlantic on the British western route. Tonnage sunk amounts to 86,000."
 (The British admiralty, London said, when asked about the conn munique said: No comment"
 Reported Attack
 (Mackay radio picked up Tuesday radio messages from the British ships Rangitiki and City of Cornish (Corinth?) reporting they were be- ing attacked by a German warship of the Graf Spec type in the middle of the North Atlantic. Yesterday the German radio said that two British steamships had been badly dams aged by German warships 100 miles off the Newfoundland coast. One was identified as the City of Corn ish (Corinth?) the other was said to be a 16000 tonner. The Rangitiki is Of 16698 tons.
 ct was reported in New York that there had been 40 ships in the convoy attacked. New York reports also were hat British warships were speeding to the rescue.
 CThe Rangitiki had reported: Convoy still being leisurely at- tackled"
 (The position of the convoy was reported almost exactly midway be- tween Cape Race, Newfoundland, and Valencia, Ireland.
 (The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec, trapped by Brit ish cruisers at Montevideo, was scuttled. Its sister ships of the class are the Leutzow, formerly the Deutschland, and Admiral Scheer.)
 15 to 20 Ships
 We'll informed German sources said that they understood the Brit ish convoy to consist of between 15 and 20 ships.
 Tonnage figures, they said. refer red only to Merchantmen sunk.
 The official news agency said that the convoy was destroyed on a most important British transport route which was protected by strong units of the British fleet, and thus was not considered dangerous,
 The convoy was completely sur- prised, 1t was added, as only two ships were able to send sos messages before they were sunk. The others were sunk before they could call for help, the agency said.
 One Ship Reports
 New York, Nov. 8-tUP)-Mackay radio today reported receipt of the following message from tho s. s. Empire Dorado:
 Sinking slowly. No means of get ting away. All lifeboats smashed. Two rafts still alongside. Help ur- gently required; casualties aboard. lat. 55' TO- north, long. 1850" west"
 The location given by the sinking Empire Dorado would place 1t about 200 miles due west of Ireland.
 The Empire Dorado is not listed in Lloyds register of shipping.
 London, Nov. 3-(UP)-A British naval spokesman, commenting on today's Greman high command as- sertion that German surface raid- CTS in the Atlantic had destroyed an entire British convoy totalling 86,000 tons, said:
 "The admiralty as well as Mackay radio have received message that one ship was being shelled. It is not known which was being shelled or how many ships were In the con- ! voy"