DESTROYER LEAVES
FOR NEWPORT, R. I.
U. S. S. Roe Ends Three-Daj
Visit And Continues
Shakedown Cruise
The U. S. S. Roe, visiting her<
since Monday afternoon, left short
ly after 3 o’clock yesterday after
noon for Newport, R. I., as a con
tinuation of its shakedown cruise.
The ship was docked at the
Southeastern Ship-ping service
vharf at the foot of Castle treet
during its three day stay here.
The Roe made Wilmington its
first port ot call while on its shake
down cruise from the Charleston,
S. C., navy yard under the auspices
Oi the Propeller Club of the United
Stats, Port of Wilmington.
Officers of the destroyer were
entertained at a dinner dance Mon
day night and a stag dinner Tues
day night at the Cape Fear Coun
try club. Special entertainment fea
tures were also provided for mem
bers of the crewr.
GERMANY CLAIMS
THRUST MADE IN
‘NICK OF TIME’
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naval and air actions in the Skag
errak, the Kattegat and the North
sea.
DNB reported in a special bulle
tin that the German army at Ber
gen, Norway, had captured five
British ships loaded with war sup
plies, including cannon, machine
guns and munitions.
The German press and official
dom seized upon this report as evi
dence of a British plan to attack
Germany from Norway and com
plete justification for Germany’s
thrust to the north.
“If German troops had not gone
up there in the nick of time and
in imposing force,” authorized
sources said, "the English would
be there now and Germany would
be worrying about the defense of
her northern border.”
The British ships were sent to
Bergen ahead of time, DNB said,
under the guise of “aid for Fin
land.” The agency asserted the
supplies were to have been used
by a British expeditionary force
which was supposed to occupy Ber
Kind New Planes
Germans also said that soldiers
who occupied Oslo found 50 new
American Curtiss planes which
they said would be studied closely
for any possible information on
construction.
(American sources said between
"30 and 50" Curtiss pursuit planes
were shipped to Norway in the last
few weeks for the Norwegian air
force but were of an old design.)
General, little-broken German si
lence on the air and sea was attri
buted to the demands on military
secrecy.
"To divulge all details now
would of course be giving valuable
information to the enemy,” DNB
observed.
However, the agency earlier said
German naval forces Wednesday
night sank two Allied destroyers at ■
the west fjord approach to Narvik,
bringing to six the total sunk there j
ar.d followed with the report that j
an aircraft carrier had been dam
age: in the North sea.
(Britain has acknowledged the
loss of four destroyers in naval
warfare off Norway since the be- j
ginning of the week, two of them j
at- Narvik.)
Amid the reluctance to say much !
on actions at sea and in the skies
the Germans nevertheless declared
that additional German soldiers
were being transported to Norway
■in a movement they insisted was
being carried out without hindrance
by the enemy.
(Swedish reports on the contrary
said six or eight German transports
had been sunk in the Skagerrak
and one had fled into a Swedish
harbor but had been turned away.)
Germany has reopened the
bridges over the Vistula river de
stroyed by bombing early in. the
Polish war.
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BRITISH SINK 18
GERMAN VESSELS
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of such operations. One of
these reports said British
warships appeared to be
landing men from outer Os
lofjord; others told of con
tinued naval action at Trond
heim, in the Skagerrak and
elsewhere. For the time be
ing, the reports were ac
cepted with reserve by neu
tral observers.
Road To “Victory”
To Churchill, first lord of
the admiralty and director
of strategy of all the British
armed services, the navy’s
feats of the last two days
“are worthy of any in our
history” and have put the
Allies on the high road to
“victory.” This he pugnaci
ously proclaimed to a wildly
excited house of commons to
day.
Th ic v>of iavi /-* /-> wi
paring the heavy German
sea losses with a total of
four sunken British destroy
ers, was willing to believe
him.
Churchill’s statement of
British naval victories since
Sunday, while not precise in
details, nevertheless gave
Britain this general compari
son of battle results:
German losses: — Four
cruisers (presumably includ
ing the Bluecher and Karls
ruhe, sunk by Norwegian
guns, and two hit by air
bombs. This is nearly half
of Germany’s cruiser
strength.)
“A number of destroyers”
(one is known to have been
torpedoed at Narvik.)
“Several” U-boats (one,
destroyed by H. M. S. Zulu,
mentioned specifically).
“Nearly a dozen” troop and
supply ships, sunk or cap
tured in the Skagerrak and
Kattegat gateways to the
Baltic, in the North Sea or
in the Norwegian ore port
of Narvik.
Damaged: — The battle
ship Scharnhorst.
British Losses
British losses:—Destroyer
Glowworm, sunk by two Ger
man destroyers.
Destroyer Gurkha, sunk
by aerial bombs.
Destroyers Hunter and
Hardy, lost in battle of Nar
vik Wednesday (Churchill
did not mention these, but
the admiralty has conceded
their loss).
Damaged: Battleship Rod
ney, battle cruiser Renown,
cruiser Aurora, and at least
two destroyers.
Today Germany broadcast
a claim that its bombers had
badly damaged a British air
craft carrier and a cruiser
in the North Sea and that
two more British destroyers,
or a total of six, had been
sunk at Narvik.
Standing against this, unconfirm
ed here, were radio reports that a
naval battlo between German and
k§S
British fleet units was raging at
Trondheim, Norway; that German
transports forced aground during last
night’s battle in the Skagerrak were
blazing fiercely; that 1,000 bodies
were floating in the waters off
Sweden, from as many as six sunk
en German transports. These re
ports likewise were not confirmed
here.
Neutral naval sources said tonight
that four nazi cruisers alone would
have carried 2,250 men, and esti
mated that total German casualties
might well exceed 5,000.
On the other hand, British casual
ties were thought to be well below
1,000. When the Gurkha was sunk,
for instance, all but fourteen men
were rescued.
Churchill’s hour-long statement,
packed with proud accounts of Brit
ish sea glories, among them the
fight of the Renown and the Scharn
horst, also told the world:
Rodney In Battle
That the mighty, 33,900-ton Rod
ney, flagship of the home fleet, al
though hit by a heavy bomb, suffer
ed but little loss and seven casual
ties and is in line of battle tonight.
That the navy has occupied the
Faroe islands, about 250 miles north
of the British naval base of Scapa
Flow, and will give them back to
Denmark when that naiton is freed
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That “we shall take what we
want” of Norway's coast when the
fleet has accomplished its foremost
object, total destruction of nazi sea
power.
That the fleet’s own planes, “the
fleet air arm,” launching flying tor
pedoes, and planes of the R. A. F.
have returned nazi air offensive
“blow for blow,” after five German
bomb attacks on the British battle
fleet which Church admitted the
nazis pressed with "courage.” Twelve
Royal Air Force planes, the first
lord said, attacked two German light
cruisers in Bergen harbor, hit one
and “we have not seen anything of
her since.”
A second foray, carried out by six
teen naval planes in Bergen Road
stead, resulted in three hits on Ger
man war vessels and later, scout
planes skimming over the scene of
attack found only a long streak of
oil on the surface.
Other fleet air arm units smashed
at German warcraft in Trondheim
harbor with aerial torpedoes.
Norway Resists
That Norway’s defenders are cap
able of "vigorous and prolonged re
sistance” to the Germans, although
their country and Denmark have
“drawn the unlucky numbers in this
sinister lottery” of “long and elabor
ate” preparation by Hitler.
Churchill, fairly fresh and at the
peak of his oratorical powers despite
three sleepless days in an admiralty
map room, thrilled the house, jam
med with members and diplomats,
with his account of the running fight
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cruiser Renown and the 26,000-ton
German battleship Scharnhorst.
The Renown, which mounts six
15-inch gunB, "engaged the enemy at
18,000 yards,” he said, in a blinding
snowstorm. It is believed to have
scored two hits, one forward of the
super-structure.
His tired voice rising, Churchill
related how the battle cruiser pur
sued the slightly faster Scharnhorst,
which mounts nine 11-inch guns, and
he regretfully concluded that the
German battleship, shielded by a
smokescreen from a German cruiser,
escaped in the stormy seas.
This took place on Tuesday, at
daybreak, near Narvik, in the far
North sea.
Churchill, as if he had been on the
Renown’s bridge himself related:
"They, (the Scharnhorst and the
German cruiser of the 10,00-ton Hip
per class) were seen in the distance,
dimly, amidst the snowstorms of a
tempestuous day. The sea was run
ning very high and gales were blow
ing furiously, but our battle cruiser
opened fire at 18,000 yards and after
three minutes the enemy replied.
"The enemy almost immediately
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turned away and after nine minutes
the Renown observed hits forward
of the superstructure of the German
battleship.
“Thereafter her whole armory
stopped firing but later, after hav
ing turned, she began firing under
local control. The speed which the
battleship maintained was very
great, and Renown had to push to
24 knots through very heavy seas
breaking over her forward gun tur
rets, and after a further two min
utes of firing, a vertical column of
smoke from what they called a pos
sible second hit was observed in the
Scharnhorst, who then turned away
and retired at high speed without
hampering herself by further firing.
"During this period a shell passed
through our vessel at about the
waterline without bursting. A second
shell went through the foremast and
carried away the main aerial. There
were no casualties in Renown.
“The 10,000-ton cruiser of the Hip
per class now tried to cross Scharn
horst. Hipper threw a smokescreen
to cover Scharnhorst and Renown
opened fire upon Hipper, which
turned away and both ships retired
it high speed, Hipper dodging the
fire which became intermittent,
“You must imagine that all the
time, snowstorms were closing the
view and the sea was running very
high. In the end we must regret to
say that they succeeded in leav
ing us.’’
LIST OF ELECTION
REGISTRARS AND
JUDGES ANNOUNCED
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street; Mrs. J. B. Williamson, 15
^outh Eighth street; Mrs. R. S. Me
Keithan, 13 South Eighth street;
Miss Frances Eiden, 609 Ann street.
FOURTH WARD, Tileston school,
Fifth and Ann streets; L. G. Le
Gwin, 419 South Fifth; P. W.
Bethea, 216 South Third; S. M.
Creech, 508 South Second.
FIFTH WARD, first precinct, fire
station, Fifth and Castle streets;
Mrs. H. F. Watters, 215 Queen; K.
S. Mallard, 709 South Eighth; A. E.
Milburn, 416 Castle.
FIFTH WARD, second precinct,
William Hooper school, 410 Meares
street; F. D. Steljes, 214 Meares
street; H. U. Herren, 1112 South
Fourth street; J. C. Bordeaux, 1223
South Third.
SIXTH WARD, first precinct,'
New Hanover High school, 1307
Market street; Edwin C. Hines, 208
North Seventeenth; B. K. Myers,
107 North Thirteenth; W. A. Wylie,
1403 Rankin street.
SIXTH WARD, second precinct;
fire station, Seventeenth and Dock
streets; J. H. Womble, 10 Wrights
ville avenue; J. R. Fisher, 1920
Perry avenue; Miss Sarah Brad
shaw, 1820 Perry avenue.
CAPE FEAR TOWNSHIP,
Wrightsboro school; Mrs. J. A.
Westbrook, C. L. Ritter and Mrs.
Eugene Savage.
HARNETT TOWNSHIP, Winter
Fark precinct; H. O. Thomas, Mrs.
Janet High and Mrs. C. M. Waldorf.
HARNETT TOWNSHIP, Seagate
precinct, Seagate school; Mrs. Hilda
Green, Mrs. Martha Walton and
Liston Larkins.
HARNETT TOWNSHIP, Seven
mile post, Ogden filling station; G.
T. Shepard, R. C. Murray, Mrs. Alice
Wagamon.
HARNETT TOWNSHIP, East
Wilmington precinct; Forest Hill
school building; J. Herbert Johnson,
Mrs. Parham Jones and Mrs. Hazel
Glidwell.
MASONBORO TOWNSHIP,
Masonboro precinct, Lumsden oyster
roast; Mrs. Rebecca Lumsden, P.
K. Montford.
MASONBORO TOWNSHIP, Sun
set Park precinct, Sunset Park
school; Mrs. D. G. Wylie, 904 Cen
tral boulevard; David Lewis, Sunset
Park; Mrs. M. A. Bordeaux, Sunset
Park.
FEDERAL POINT TOWNSHIP,
Carolina Beach school building; Otto
Nielsen, Rider Lewis and Donald
Sullivan.
Survivors Of British
Destroyer Are Landed
LONDON, April 12.--(Friday)—UP)
—Survivors of the British destroy
er Gurkha, sunk in the North sea
by the power-diving German bomb
ers, w'ere landed yesterday in a
north Scottish port. Fourteen of
th" crew went down with the ship.
The rescued crewmen said their
gunners kept firing at wave upon
wave of the German attackers until
the decks of the ship were awash.
Seventy German prisoners also
were landed under strong guard.
CING HAAKON FLEES
BEFORE NAZI RAID
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)f Oslo, and cannonading
muld be heard.
A naval battle between
British and German forces
outside the port of Trond
heim was reported by the
Norwegian radio at Olesund.
British planes attacked
German warships in Trond
heimfjord.
Norwegian minutemen,
some of them armed with
nothing but shotguns, ral
lied to the defense of the na
tion. They were reported to
have retaken the port of!
Bergen, arrested the com
mander of the fortress of
Kongsvinger, near the Swed
ish border and defeated Ger
man forces before Elverum.
The volunteers who ar
rested the Kongsvinger com
mander just had returned
from Finland, where they
fought the Russians.
Elverum was bombed sev
eral times during Thursday.
Two persons were killed,
many hurt and numerous
buildings were set afire by
incendiary bombs.
Three planes raided the
town during the morning.
In the afternoon, nine planes
carried out attacks in sev
eral waves, dropping both
explosive and incendiary
bombs.
Kongsvinger also was
bombed.
German and Norwegian
troops were fighting at sev
eral points west of Kongs
vinger, and at Eidsvold, half
way between Oslo and Ha
mar.
The Germans, however,
were masters of the major
portion of the railway be
tween Oslo and Kongsvinger.
Heavy detonations were
heard tonight from the di
rection of Kongsvinger.
Twenty persons were hurt at El
verum, and the population still
was fleeing early today.
Norwegian sources said Elverum
was an “open town’* without fort
resses.
Major Hoch-Nielsen. the com
mander of the Kongsvinger fort
ress, was seized by the Norwegian
volunteers when he refused to give
them arms. The volunteers then
helped themselves to the equipment
they needed.
Earlier, Major Hoch-Nielsen had
released the German prize crew
taken last autumn from the Amer
ican steamer, City of Flint, upon
orders from the German military
command.
Overalled workers. untrained
peasants, rifle club members and
nilitary school cadets responded to
:he government's call to join the
British Allies against the Nazis,
rhey took to the field with what
weapons were at hand, hastily
fortifying every possible defense
point not in German hands.
A late afternoon radio report
Erom the Norwegian commander at
Bergen said his forces had retaken
the city from the invaders and
were massing for an attempt to
recapture Trondheim, farther up
the west coast.
Subsequent advices reaching Stock
holm said Bergen was in Nor
wegian hands but that t)-e ,
resses at the entrance ,,
bor still were held by the r-t„
The Bergen commander ^
th invaders were mass---,' 11
forces around Trondheim.
From the north,
troops were advancing
in the hope of cutting off"
troops operating between J?**
heim and the Swedish horde. *
Th Norwegians were *rjl.
methodically blasting ori
make German advances *.. 11
and to cut off Nazi forces .
in possession of Non-..
tory.
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A new—and perhaps vital—element is present in today’s sea battles that naval strategists of other wars did not have to contend with,
lhe new factor is the fighting plane, dropping oombs which may prove more deadly to battleships than the foe’s gunfire. The artist's conception,
above, where squadrons of bombers have been superimposed upon a painting of the World war Battle of Jutland, gives you a preview of a
modern major naval engagement.
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