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CAPTURED BY BRITISH NAVY SUPPOSED SUPPLY SHIP FOR RAIDER. CARGO OF CRUDE OIL. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON. October 12. It is officially announced that the British Navy has captured the German liner, Cap Norte, which is believed to have been taking supplies to a commerce raider. The Cap Norte carried foodstuffs and petroleum products. She slipped out of Pernambuco on September 17, for an undisclosed destination, it is believed Vladivostok. The oil companies declined to sell fuel oils used by submarines, but the Cap Norte had 2.E00 tons of crude oil aboard.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1939, Page 5
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