LIFEBOAT RAMMED
Callous Japanese (Received July 5, 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON. July 1. After being 16 days adrift. in the Arabian Sea. 38 .survivors of the American freighter Ridin rd Hovey were rescued. The War Shipping Administration slated that, a Japanese submarine sank the Richard Hovey when she v.’i.s homeward bound from India, and killed four members of the crew. The Japanese took the captain, Haus Thorsen, and three seamen aboard the submarine, and (hen inachinegunned and rammed a crowded lifeboat. Japanese on the submarine's deck laughed at tin* struggling survivors and look photographs. Twenty-!) v<- other survivors were pick'd up three days after the .sink-
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 5
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105LIFEBOAT RAMMED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 5
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