U-BOATS OFF AFRICA
Claim To Have Sunk Liners (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 14. The German High Command has announced that the Orcades and the Duchess of Athol have been sunk. Üboats sank the Orcades off Cape Town and the Duchess of Athol between Freetown and Cape Town. 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 were landed there. The British Consul-General, also the Argentine Consul-General, were among the survivors. The German claims are described in London as exaggerated.
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Southland Times, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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112U-BOATS OFF AFRICA Southland Times, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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