Show Boats U-Boats Meet Warships In lengthy Battle By Dy PIERRE 1 J HUSS BERLIN Feb 26 INS A great running battle between n German German German Ger Ger- man boats U-boats and British warships apparently the starting gun In Adolf Adoll Hitler's submarine submarine sub sub sub- marine campaign aimed at occupation occupation occupation pation instead of ot mere invasion of ot England was England was described by the German high command Wednes Wednes- day The battle occurred between Sunday noon and Monday night When It was over according to the German statement tons of enemy merchant ships In Including Including including In- In an auxiliary cruiser had been sunk At about the same time it was announced one of Germanys Germany's fast last motor motor- torpedo boats sank an unIdentified unidentified un un- un identified British destroyer southeast southeast southeast south south- east of England There were no details Later German victories raised this figure to more than tons it was said with naval vessels vessels ves yes sels included And Wednesday military headquarters announced three additional merchant ships totaling tons had been sunk by the northwest of Ireland r r tv Canvass Bares Dares Details On the he basis of Hitler's speech at Munich on Monday when he told of German plans to destroy the British navy and starve out England by means of new and secret U boats this correspondent Wednesday canvassed German naval and neutral sources for details details details de de- de- de tails of the nazi campaign First of all I found that the new German navy has an ominous slogan to compare with the Spur los sunk without a trace of World war days The fhe nazi byword is auf which means Sunk on the ride to death It recalls Hitler's warping warning In hi his speech of January 30 that any I and all vessels carrying aid to Britain and coming before the torpedo torpedo tor tor- tor tubes of German boats U-boats would be sunk without t hesitation The fuehrer's obvious warning was any ships ships' attempting to break the German blockade would be embarking em cm- barking upon a ride to death Second three of Hitler's most trust trusted d naval aids have laid the foundation of a gigantic subina- subina submarine rine campaign Primarily it is designed to duplicate below and andon andon on the surface of the sea ea the dev devastating attacks of the l which had their most ef effective example example ex ex- ex ample in the razing of Coventry See Oc Occupation u Soon Unless Brit Britain ln is able to quickly quick quick- ly devise some som effective counterattack counter counter- attack tta k one spokesman said In summing up the he general nazi viewpoint viewpoint viewpoint view view- point the th time may come cone before belore the end of this summer summer- when net not invasion but actual occupation of England England- is is' pro probable able T The e men responsible for planning planning planning plan plan- ning the boat U-boat campaign are headed by Grand Erich Rae Raeder ler er who as long hs as s. s 20 years ago sponsored a mosquito navy designed d for thrusts to achieve r- r maximum results with t I Hitler l rf d the evir vir virtues tues of this policy polley it it Ie w was s said ald and consequently made R Raeder eder his naval key man Use Wolf foIt Pack Plan Since French Belgian and Dutch naval b bases ses on the channel coast became available to Germany Raeder Raeder Rae Rae- der and his aides experimented e ext ex extensively ex- ex t with large numbers of small boats U-boats acting on a wolf pack principle The theory now is to scatter enemy enemy enemy en en- emy defenses by feigned and real attacks attacks' in blitz fashion from several directions Part of the pack E to lure away protecting destroyers while the remainder tear into merchant ships The system has proved itself in exhaustive tests it was said Therefore Therefore There There- fore for a U boat blitz was decided upon and mass construction of submarines was begun last fall |