The Archive · 1940

Nazis Return to Wreck

Copenhagen, Mar. 25.

'Torpedoed early on Sunday morning by a British submarine after the crew had been warned off, the German freighter Edmund Hugo Stinnes Femained afloat. until today, when it nally' sank.

"The Interval of some 24 hours per~ mitted the 21 members of the crew who had reached the Danish coast, some three miles away, to return and {take off a number of personal belong ings. Two seamen of the German, ship were injured and sent to hosital on reaching land. The captain Was. taken prisoner-of-war by the British submarine which warned and then sank the freighter. "The rest the crew. will be repatriated.

"When accosted, the Edmund Hugo Stinnes was carrying a cargo of coke to Germany from a Danish harbour. Her wreck is now obstructing a shi ing Jane and constitutes a danger to navigation—Havas,

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