NEUTRAL WATERS
VIOLATED BY GERMAN AIRCRAFT. ABORTIVE ATTACK ON BRITISH SHIPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, August 20. German aircraft recently violated neutral waters and attacked a British merchant ship lying off the Portuguese coast, waiting to enter harbour. The crew were taken by surprise as the aircraft dropped a bomb near the ship and raked her with machine-gun fire. Fortunately there were no casualties.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1941, Page 6
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69NEUTRAL WATERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1941, Page 6
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