FATE OF ZAMZAM
SHELLED WITH PASSENGERS ON BOARD. TWO AMERICANS AMONG INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) VICHY, May 24. It is revealed that a German raider, believed to have been the former Norwegian steamer Tamesis, hit the Egyptian steamer Zamzam eight or nine times with shells on May 17 while the passengers were still aboard. Only two Americans and one Egyptian were injured. The passengers and crew were taken aboard the raider, after which the Zamzam was dynamited. The passengers were later transhipped to the motor-ship Dresden and landed at St Jean de Luz, France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 6
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94FATE OF ZAMZAM Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 6
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