GERMAN TANKER
— -»■ SUNK BY HER OWN CREW AVOIDING CAPTURE BY BRITISH CRUISER. INTIMATION TO BOARDING PARTY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, November 2. A Balboa report says it is reliably stated that the German tanker Emmy Friederich was sunk by her own crew in the Caribbean Sea in order to avoid capture by a British cruiser. The Panama correspondent of the “New York Times" reports that the cruiser encountered the tanker on October 24, running without lights. She claimed to be neutral. Asked why she was darkened, she replied that she was having trouble with the lights, and was then ordered to stop. She did not comply, but replied that she was having trouble with her engines. The cruiser's next order, however, was obeyed. ' A boarding party found the tanker’s crew standing by the lifeboats. The captain remarked: “Well, gentlemen, there is nothing you can do. We have opened the seacocks and smashed the valves, and so had better take tn the boats.” The cruiser took the crew aboard and stood by till the tanker san!'. According to a Davcntry broadcast the tanker had 40,000 barrels of oil b . its way to refuel a he?- in the
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1939, Page 5
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