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Show THREE SMALL BRITISH SUBMARINES SUNK ON MYSTERIOUS TRIP TO NAZI WATERS LONDON, Jan. 16 (INS) Three small British submarines have been lost during the last week while engaged en-gaged upon mysterious and "particularly "par-ticularly hazardous" service, presumably pre-sumably In German waters, the admiralty admitted today. In a brief communique which threw no light whatever upon the nature of their daring missions the admiralty said: "During the past week the submarines sub-marines Seahorse, Undine and Starfish failed to return to their bases to report. "These vessels were engaged In particularly hazardous service. "The admiralty fears that they must be regarded as lost The next of kin has been Informed. "The German wireless has announced an-nounced that part of the crews of the Undine and Starfish were rescued." res-cued." The German anno uncement, however, gave no details of the submarines' activity and claimed only destruction of the Starfish and Undine, with no mention of the Seahorse. The terse British communique left England speculating as to the "particularly hazardous" service upon which they were engaged. , One theory was that the three submarines, working together, had tried to emulate the feat of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Guenther Prien of the German Ger-man navy, who nosed his U-boat Into Britain's chief naval concentration concen-tration base at Sea pa Flow and sank the battleship Royal Oak. . Equally Ukely waa the possibility possibil-ity that the three submersibles had been sent to Helgoland to lay mines. |