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SIGHTED FROM JUTLAND COAST WARSHIPS RESCUE STEAMER. FROM SUBMARINE OR TORPEDO BOAT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) COPENHAGEN. October 22. Farmers and fishermen in North Jutland report a naval battle between unidentified warships off the. coast. Farmers, watching from hillsides at Hirtshals in North Jutland, say they saw a naval vessel, either a submarine or a torpedo boat, intercept a steamer. Two large vessels appeared and fired on the smaller vessel for 15 minutes, tite steamer escaping, followed by the interception vessels. The warships later disappeared northward. Fishermen corroborate the story.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1939, Page 5
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97NAVAL ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1939, Page 5
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