QUEST FOR RAIDER
SAID TO HAVE SUNK SIX SHIPS AND LAID BASS STRAIT MINES. AIR FORCE AND NAVAL EFFORTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) MELBOURNE. November 11. An armed raider known to the British Admiralty as the Narvik is believed l,y many shipping- experts to have laid a minefield in Bass Strait and either by mines or by direct attack to have sunk six ships in Australian and New Zealand wafers, two in the Indian Ocean, and possibly two others near the West Indies. The Narvik ’has been seen by British and neutral ships, and is described as a merchant ship painted white or light grey. She is thought to carry four guns and is said to have disguised herself on previous occasions by flying the Swedish flag. By great speed the Narvik has. eluded every effort to track iter down during the last five months. While minesweeper flotillas are cleaning up the Bass Strait field, the Navy and the R.A.A.F. are ceaselessly searching for the raider. Rough weather in the strait is hampering the search.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 5
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175QUEST FOR RAIDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 5
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