RAIDER IDENTIFIED
ADMIRAL SCHEER ACTIVE
EXPLOIT OFF AFRICA
(Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 18.
The Capetown correspondent of The Times 'states that the identity of the German raider which sank the British tanker, Africa Shell, in Portuguese East African waters, has been definitely established as the German “pocket” battleship Admiral Scheer. A special representative of a Lourenco Marques newspaper flew to Inhambane and showed members of the Africa Shell a selection of warship pictures, from which everyone selected the Admiral Scheer as the attacker.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 7
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