ATTACKED BY U-BOAT
CAPTURED ENEMY SHIP FOUR GERMANS KILLED. NO BRITISH CASUALTIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 27. The Admiralty announces that the captured German merchantman Borkum, 'with a British prize crew aboard, was attacked and set on fire by a U-boat while making for harbour. She was abandoned and driven ashore. Four Germans were killed, but there were no British casualties. The Admiralty also announced that a British warship captured the Konsul Hendrik Fisser and took her to a harbour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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81ATTACKED BY U-BOAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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