GERMAN U-ROAT
BEATEN OFF BY BRITISH LINER ENCOUNTER NEAR CANARY ISLANDS. PANIC STORY DENIED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RIO DE JANEIRO, January 8. Passengers on the British liner Highland Patriot told of a two-hour battle with a German submarine, when the ship was a few hours out from the Canary Islands, in the course of which the U-boat fired two torpedoes, which came perilously close to the bow of the liner. The liner retaliated with a four-inch gun, mounted aft. whereupon the Üboat submerged and fled. The passengers were panic-stricken and milled about, one being fatally injured in the crush. Official British sources denied a passenger’s story that one passenger died from injuries resulting from panic.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 5
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