ATLANTIC RAIDER
THE SINKING OF THE CLEMENT. MYSTERY SUPPOSEDLY CLEARED UP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, October 21. The Buenos Aires correspondent of the "New York Times” states that diplomatic quarters report that the Schwabenland, the floating refuelling base for the South Atlantic German airmail service, sank the Clement on October 2, and that a British cruiser later'sank the Schwabenland, captured the crew, and releaased the Clement's captain and first officer. The Germans who boarded the Clement wore "Admiral Scheer” cap ribbons.
If substantiated, this report clears up the Admiral Scheer mystery. The Clement L 5051 tons) was sunk by an armed raider in the South Atlantic, and. though there was little to substantiate the story, there wore repeated references to the Admiral Scheer, one of Germany's pocket battleships as the unidentified raider. Germany neither supported nor denied the Admiral Scheer story.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1939, Page 7
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142ATLANTIC RAIDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1939, Page 7
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