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SINKING OF BRITISH LAND STATION. REPORTED BY GERMAN WIRELESS. (British Official Wireless.; RUGBY, November 4. According to the Swedish newspaper “Gotmorgtid,” the German wireless lately reported the “sinking” of H.M.S. Kestrel. Under the caption “Clever U-Boat,” the Swedish newspaper points out that the Kestrel is a land training station owned by the Naval Air Arm and is many miles from the sea. This fact is open to anyone bu'ying pre-war navy lists, which have been sold freely for four shillings.
Daventry. in a broadcast last night, described the incident as the German wireless station’s latest and most fantastic claim, and added, “It is not known what decoration Herr Hitler will confer on the commander of this apparently amphibious submarine."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 5
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121U=BOAT MARVEL Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 5
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