WATUSSI’S CAPTAIN
WHY HE SET HIS SHIP ON FIRE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) CAPE TOWN. December 4. The captain of the Watussi, the German liner intercepted by South African air patrols, asked why he set fire to the steamer instead of opening the seacocks, said he was taking no chances. It was an unwritten law that a captain never allows his command lo fall into enemy hands.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1939, Page 5
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