SEA RAIDING
POCKET BATTLESHIP STORV DEUTSCHLAND NOW SAID TO BE AT LARGE. ATTACK ON BRITISH SHIP IN ATLANTIC. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) TROMSO, October 25. Survivors of the Stonegate have been landed at Tromso. They stated that the Deutschland sank the Stonegate in mid-Atlantic, took the crew aboard and transferred them to a Norwegian vessel, after .seizing the City of Flint, which the Deutschland intended to take to a German harbour but was short of water. 1 The Clan Chisholm, of Glasgow (7256 tons), has been sunk. She belonged to the Clan Line, and was built two years ago. It is further revealed that among the missing passengers from the liner Yorkshire are seven women and 10 children, including four of one family, beside naval, army and air force officers returning from the East. The liner’s agents report that 33 persons were lost. Mrs A. C. Barber, the widow of one of the victims, was missing from the Channel steamer which brought the survivors to England.
ANOTHER BRITISH VICTIM (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 25. The British steamer Tafna was sunk in the Atlantic by a U-boat. The crew of 31 was saved. Five survivors from the Menin Ridge, which was also sunk in the Atlantic. have been landed at Gibraltar.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1939, Page 7
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217SEA RAIDING Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1939, Page 7
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