LOST TRANSPORT
MOHAMED AU EL KEBIR
CONVEYING TROOPS AND NAVAL
RATINGS.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MISSING.
ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i
(Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 11
The Admiralty announces that the transport Mohamed Ali El Kebir, of 7290 tons, was torpedoed and sunk. There were 860 aboard, of whom 740 were saved and landed.
Daventry slates that the transport, which was torpedoed in the Atlantic, was conveying troops .and naval ratings. :
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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73LOST TRANSPORT Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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