NAZIS SCUTTLE SHIP
Blockade Runner’s End NEW YORK, January 25. Somewhere in the Atlantic, says the Associated l’re*s, German sailors manning a bluckade-running freighter dis; guised as a Norwegian, ran up the Nazi flag and scuttled their ship under the guns of an American naval force. The ship presumably was bound tor Japan. Its cargo included clothing, lime, medicine, coils of wire rope, pnilll, pigments and rope made from coconut fibre. There was also on hoard an armed motor lorpedo-boat. Prompt action by the Ain,*i-i<-:in force prevented the Germium liiuneliing it. Sixty-two ollicers mid men. 24 of whom were believed to lie naval men. were taken prisoner.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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107NAZIS SCUTTLE SHIP Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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