NAZI SUPPLY SHIP
AND CAPTURED NORWEGIAN TANKER INTERCEPTED IN INDIAN OCEAN. BY CANBERRA & LEANDER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Admiralty has informed the New Zealand Government I hat the Australian cruiser H.M.A.S. Canberra (Captain 11. B. Farncomb, M.V.0.. It.A.N.) and the New Zealand cruiser 11.M.5. Leander (Captain IL 11. Bevan, ILN.) have intercepted in lhe Indian Ocean a German merchant vessel and a Norwegian tanker which had been captured by a German raider. The German merchant ship, which had been acting as a supply ship for the raider, was the Coburg, of 7400 tons, and the tanker was the Ketty Brovig, of 7031 tons. Eighteen German officers and 47 German ratings were captured and are now prisoners of war. and the rescued included a number of Norwegians and Chinese.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1941, Page 4
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