NAZI HAIDERS
ADMIRAL SCHEER RETURNS TO PORT I | SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS REPORTED. LOSS OF THE PINGUIN ADMITTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON. June 26. A German communique states that the pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer has returned to a German base after long and successful operations in the North and South Atlantic, sinking altogether 132,000 tons of enemy shipping. The communique admits the loss of the auxiliary cruiser Pinguin, after a fight with the British cruiser Cornwall, in the Indian Ocean. It adds that the commander and most of the crew of the Pinguin were killed. The Pinguin cruised for months in the Atlantic and Indian oceans and captured many' merchantmen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 6
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113NAZI HAIDERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 6
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