Evening star., 1942-04-06
Atlantic Rendezvous
ByRaider. and Sub
Related by German
Men From U-Boot Token
Aboard Kormorun Despite
Rough SEQ, Writer Says
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN from German broad
casts), April 6-An unexpected
meeting with a German submarine
in the Atlantic was described by
War Reporter DR.. Fritz List from
aboard the German auxiliary cruiser
Kormoran which some time ago had
sunk the Australian cruiser Sydney.
He wired:
Some time ago we were lying
side by side with a German heavily
armored giant which likewise had
done most serious harm to British
shipping. And now we met some
submarine. The sea was rough but
nevertheless we managed to get
within hail.
The submarine commander asked
us to loan him a few torpedoes
since he had already fired all his
ammunition and did not want to
leave this good hunting ground.
The rough sea, however, pre-
vented this for the time being.
Therefore, we sailed on for a long
while, side by side, waiting for better
weather. All we could do now, al
though with great difficulty, was to
supply the submarine comrades with
fresh rolls.
Sea Still Very Rough.
The next morning the sea was
still very rough. We did them an
other good treat by inviting the
duty-free men aboard our ship This
was gladly accepted In long rub
Der boat they came across. The use
OF our swimming bath was point No.
on their program. Point No. 2 was
shower bath and the use of soap,
followed by an inspection of the
auxiliary cruiser and by big dinner
But soon the weather improved
and we could replenish the empty
ammunition chamber OF the U-boat
with our torpedoes. Our two crews
were able to catch a big shark
but the submarine crew was unable
to wait until our cook had sharkfin
soup ready which we had to eat
without our comrades"
- oNlilinAL ddAlllnlN well
be ranging the Atlantic with the
Tirpitz, sister ship of the Inflated
Bismarck, as suggested by DR.. List.
The Tirpitz was last reported on
March 20 at Trondheim, a huge
steel net spread over her anchorage
against high cliff so British bomb
ers could not get at her. This was
after her sally along the Norwegian
coast March 9 in an effort to cut
Russias Arctic supply line when
she was unsuccessfully attacked by
British torpedo planes.
II the British have knowledge Of
her whereabouts since March 20
they have given no hint. They
have announced. however. that they
were Greatly Strengthening their
patrols and convoy protection in
that area.
The Kormoran was known to have
been in the habit of keeping the
company of German warships.
Known as Steiermark.
Known to the British and Aus
tralians as the sSteier1nark and also
as Raider No. Al; the Kormoran had
used yet other names, flags and dis
guiSes from time to time.
Said by British naval authorities
to be armed with six 59-inch guns
equipped with two aircraft and tor
pedo tubes both on deck and under
water, manned by crew of about
400 and capable of IS knots, she was
the most successful German surface
raider of the war.
She was admitted to have sunk
at least nine ships totaling 5l,479
tons near the Cape Verde Islands, in
the Eastern Atlantic, South Atlantic
and the Indian Ocean before sup
posedly being brought to book No
vember 19 by the Sydney 300 miles
west Of Australia.
Accompanied Pocket Battleship.
Marine quarters in New York said
December 2, when her sinking was
announced, that she had been re-
ported in the company of a German
pocket battleship on some of her
depredations and that it might have
been one of these 10,000-ton war
ships with 11-mch guns which sank
the Sydney instead Of the Kormo-
ran. There also was the possibility
that she was in the company of SUBJ
marines which may have accounted
for the Sydney.
These quarters considered il
doubtful that the 6.830-ton, 33-knot
Sydney. armed with eight 6-incf
guns and manned by a veteran crew
which had participated IN many a
sea action from the Mediterranean
to the Indian Ocean could have
been sunk by the ighter-armed Kor-
moran.
The Germans, after admitting
that she had to be abandoned by
her crew, announced December 5