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SINKING OF ENEMY RAIDER IN INDIAN OCEAN NAZI FLAG EVENTUALLY HOISTED. FIRE EXCHANGED FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES. ißy Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) CAPETOWN, June 2. Details of the sinking of a Gorman raider in the Indian Ocean on May 8 by H.M.S. Cornwall show that the raider was located by plane and later the lookout at the masthead reported that the raider was in sight. The raider sent a wireless message, saying she was a Norwegian vessel and was being chased by a German raider. The Cornwall signalled: "Stand to or we fire.” The raider then swung around, hoisted the Nazi flag, dropped Haps concealing her guns and fired a broadside. After a fifteen minutes’ exchange of fire, the Cornwall scored a direct hit on explosives aboard the raider, which sank in less than a minute. The Cornwall’s damage was superficial. A few sailors received shrapnel wounds.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 6
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153TRICKS THAT FAILED Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 6
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