SINKINGS CLAIMED
LARGE BRITISH LINERS U-BOATS OFF AFRICA (3 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14. The German High Command announced that the Orcades, of 23,500 tons, and the-Duchess of Atholl, of 20,000 tons, have been sunk. U-boats sank the Orcades off Capetown and the Duchess of Atholl between Freetown and Capetown. Both were equipped to carry between 9000 and 10.000 men with arms to Egypt. Two other ships were sunk in the same waters. A message from Freetown reports that 249 survivors, including 82 passengers from a ship torpedoed in the' Atlantic, have landed here. The. British consul-general, and also the Argentina consul-general were among the survivors. An Italian communique states that a British submarine in the central Mediterranean torpedoed and sank an Italian ship carrying 400 British prisoners, of whom 261 were saved. One Italian submarine operating in the Atlantic has not returned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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142SINKINGS CLAIMED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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