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TAKEN OF ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS ACHIEVEMENTS OF BRITISH SUBMARINES. NUMBER OF VESSELS TORPEDOED IN MEDITERRANEAN. i By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, May 28. In the Mediterranean British submarines have inflicted iosses on enemy shipping bound for North Africa totalling 32,000 tons and thousands of men and great quantities of oil other supplies have been lost. One ship was a liner of 18.000 tons, southward bound with a heavy escort. She must have had 3.000 men on board. She was hit by two torpedoes and is .considered to have been sunk. A French tanker was sunk, another ship with troops and supplies aboard was torpedoed and probably sank, while a fourth ship, a heavily-laden oil-tanker was also torpedoed.
SUCCESS CONFIRMED ENEMY LINER AND TANKER. SUNK. (Received This Dav. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. May 28. A British submarine .in the Mediterranean torpedoed and sank an 18.000ton enemy liner, carrying probably 3000 troops to Libya. A French tanker of about 3000 tons was also torpedoed and sunk. Another 5000-ton enemy ship was hit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1941, Page 5
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