CLAIMS BY U-BOATS.
SINKING OF BRITISH LINERS.
P.A. Cable.
LONDON, Oct. 14.
The German High Command has announced that the Orcades and Duchess of Atholl 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 landed there. A British Consul-General and also an Argentina Consul- General were among the survivors.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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99CLAIMS BY U-BOATS. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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