CAPTURE AVOIDED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 5

CAPTURE AVOIDED

GERMAN LINER SCUTTLED AT SEA CHASE BY BRITISH WARSHIP. CREW & PASSENGERS SAVED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CAPE TOWN. November 25. The German liner Adolph Woermann was scuttled by her own crew in the South Atlantic to avoid capture. The crew and passengers, including 18 women, were picked up safely. The captain wirelessed that he was being chased by a British warship and had sunk his own ship. She slipped out of Lobito Bay on November. 18. A Daventry broadcast last night stated that the Adolph Woermann had a crew of 127 and 35 passengers aboard. The majority of the passengers were South Africans and had been aboard since the outbreak of the war. When picked up they were in a desperate plight. The crew were taken prisoner. GERMAN PASSENGERS INTERNED IN FRANCE. PARIS, November 25. German passengers numbering 250 were interned when the Italian liner Neptunia arrived at Marseilles. German mailbags were seized. FINNISH STEAMER SEIZED BY GERMANS. HELSINKI, November 25. Germany seized the Finnish steamer Britannic, laden With cellulose, off the Swedish coast in the Baltic. WARSHIP REPORTED OFF SOUTH COAST OF CHILE. SANTIAGO. November 25. • The Defence Minister, Senor Labarca, is investigating reports that an unnamed belligerent is maintaining a ..warship equipped with planes in the maze .of bays and channels on the south Chilean coast. The investigation follows the landing of a camouflaged plane at Port Natales on November 10.