Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-15
British Subs Sink
7 Axis Ships and
Invade Harbors
Three Other Vessels Are
Damaged in Fresh Blows
In Mediterranean
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. June 14-British sub
marines were officially reported to-
day to have sunk seven Axis vessels
and damaged three others in the
Mediterranean and fresh blows were
recorded against German efforts to
get Nazi surface raiders loose in the
Atlantic.
Attacks not only have been car
ried out at sea-" the Admiralty said
of the Mediterranean warfare, but
our submarines have sought out the
enemy and destroyed him in his
harbors."
BY gunfire or torpedoes. the Ad-
rniralty reported, British underseas
craft raiding Axis communication
lines between the Italian island of
LampeduSa and the Aegean sank
an armed Italian trawler, four
schooners large supply lighter
and a fully laden supply ship of
about 1000 tons.
Italian Cruiser Damaged.
In other raids, it was claimed, an
italian armed merchant cruiser and
two tankers of 1922 and 5000 tons
were damaged by torpedo hits, and
the largest tanker was almost GER
tainly' sunk.
Harbors of LampeduSa, which lies
south of Sicily; Bengasi, Libya, and
the Aegean island of Mytilene were
listed as the scenes of much of this
activity. The period covered was
not disclosed.
Elsewhere. the British announced,
berths of Nazi Warships at BreSt
again were bombed heavily over
night and the seventh ship from the
sunken Bismarcks fotilla was
destroyed.
Battleship May Be Out Months.
BrltonS generally assumed that a
northbound German pocket battle
ship reported torpedoed amidship in
plane attack off Norway yesterday
probably would be out of commits
sion for months
Neither the Air Ministry nor the
Admiralty offered further word on
this 10,000-ton target of coastal
command f1yers-apparently either
the Admiral Scheer or the LuetzoW
which was last reported nosing
homeWard at third of her normal
speed of 26 knots.
The Air Ministry said. however,
that strong bomber forces had bat
tered the berths of the 26000-ton
battleships Scharnhorst and Gne-
isenau and Hyper class cruiser at
Brest.
The destruction of sixth auxil-
larry ship of the Bismarck brought to
seven the number of her associated
vessels sunk since the $4,000 German
battleShip was cornered and sent to
the bottom three days after she de-
stroyed Britain'S 42,1OO-ton battle
cruiser Hood.
BritonS believe the cruiser at
Brest is the l00OO-ton Prinz Eugen.
which escaped the British aerial and
naval forces who hunted down the
Bismarck
Informed sources were agreed that
there was a good possibility that
Germany was primarily intent upon
getting surface raiders into the |
South Atlantic and Indian Ocean to /
help stop supplies and munitions !
from the United States for Britain's |
Near East armies.
They said. too. they were unable
to account for the failure of Ger
many to provide an adequate aerial
escort for the pocket battleship and
her escort of five destroyers found
off Norway, when they were so
near the German-occupied coast.
British attackers reported encoun-
tering only one German flying boat
and said the fact the warships failed
to fire single shot at the torpedo
aircraft suggested they were taken
completely by surprise.