SUNK BY GUNFIRE
BRITISH STEAMER
NAZI BASES IN AZORES V
(Received November 14, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 13.. Berlin Radio reports that German submarines appeared off the west coast of Spain and sank a British ship of 14,000 tons by gunfire. The British ship was the Ponzano, though the German claim of the to unage was erroneous, the; vessel being only of 1346 tons. ■'■.■",.-. * LONDON, November 13, It is authoritatively stated that submarines sank only the 961-ton British steamer Carmarthen Coast last week. -. The Paris representative of the Exchange Telegraph Compan; reports that the newspaper 'L'Epoque" declares the German navy. uas prepared bases and stored ' food and fuel foe raiding units in the Azore,? (Portuguese islands in the Atlantic), where surveying had been earned ou + for months past under the guise of ordinary naval visits.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 9
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