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Axis Submarine Sunk By Brazilian Planes
IX TERRITORIAL WATERS
RIO DE JANEIRO. May 29
Brazilian war planes attacked three Axis submarines and sank one. .A. Brazilian Air Ministry communique stated: "Submarine attacks in Brazilian territorial waters acainst our merchant ships promoted action by our air force to safeguard our sovereignty, the liberty of our navigation and the iife of our undefended sailors, who are being fired on by cannon and then machinegunned—in one case after their vessel was torpedoed and left unable to continue the voyage. After inhuman aggression to the steamer Commar'ante Lva three submarine? \v » ■ located, pursued and attacked alum; the Brazilian coa*t, one uf them being sunk."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 126, 30 May 1942, Page 7
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