BRITISH PASSENGER SHIP BOMBED BY NAZIS
Total of 108 Persons Believed to Have Been Killed VICTIMS MACHINE-GUNNED ON DECKS AND IN BOATS MANY OF THE SURVIVORS INJURED (By Telegraph. —Press Association. Copyright.) LONDON, March 4. The first big British passenger vessel Io be attacked I rom the air with a total of 108 British and Indian subjects belie. killed, together with two Dutch steamers, are among the i ecf.nl. victims of Nazi bombing and .machine-gunning raids. Last evening the Admiralty announced that between 4 and 5 a.m. on Saturday a German Ileinkel bomber overtook the British India steamship Domain (8-141 Ions) in the English Channel and east four bombs, of which three struck her. This was a passenger ship which sailed from Antwerp with British Indian subjects who had been released by the German Government and 'were being repatriated. • The captain was killed and tire broke out amidships. Hie sea was rough, and the work of rescue difficult. Various British ships and a Dutch vessel rescued the majority ol the passengers and crew but. 2t) British mil of 48 and 88 British Indian subjects out. of 253 are missing and feared dead. Many of the survivors sustained injuries. The ship is now in port.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1940, Page 5
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