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AIR ATTACK ON STEAMER UPMINSTER. MEMBERS OF CREW TELL THEIR. STORY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.7 p.m.) RUGBY, January 10. The master and two men of the steamer Upminster are believed to have been killed when the ship was bombed in the North Sea yesterday. Ten survivors were landed at an East Coast port today. In describing the attack by two German aircraft the second officer—one of the survivors—said: “They swooped down and attacked us again and again, first with machine-guns and then with bombs. We had no guns and no wireless. Other survivors told how they were machine-gunned as they tried to scramble into their small boats and again as they were rowing away. “The planes swept our decks mercilessly as we ran for the boats.” they said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1940, Page 6
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