SINKING OF HAZELSIDE
GERMAN REPORT DENIED NO WARNING GIVEN (British Official Wireless. 7 Reed. 10 a.m RUGBY, Sept. 2G. A German News Agency report professedly based on survivors’ stories that the submarine which sank the Newcastle freighter Hazelside, of 4640 lons, signalled the vessel to heave to and later tired warning shots over the steamer’s bow, is flatly contradicted in an interview with some of the survivors published in the British press. The German account admits that one of the Hazelside’s boats was destroyed by shells, but omits all reference to the casualties caused. Royal Air Force patrols sighted the U-boat, which /tried 'to submerge hurriedly, but as it did so it made a good target for bombs. Observation was kept on the spot for some time, but nothing further was seen of the submarine.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 5
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135SINKING OF HAZELSIDE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 5
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