SUNK BY RAIDER.
British Survivors Fired On In Lifeboats. DRIFTED FOR A FORTNIGHT. (Reed. 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Survivors of a British freighter, who were landed at Barranquilla (Venezuela) reported that a German raider sank their drip off Trinidad on September 3. Thereafter, the raider machinegunned the lifeboats. The survivors drifted for a fortnight before they were picked up by a tanker.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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64SUNK BY RAIDER. Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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