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BRITISH ATTACK ON ARCTIC CONVOY CRUISER & OTHER VESSELS SUNK. NO LOSSES ON OUR SIDE. LONDON, September 9. An Admiralty communique states that light British naval forces attacked a German convoy taking supplies to the Murmansk area, for German forces operating there. The operations were successful. A German light cruiser, a destroyer, an armed trawler and another vessel were sunk. The British forces no casualties. The German light cruiser had a speed of 27 knots and carried four fiveinch guns and six anti-aircraft guns. The Germans admit the loss of the ship.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 5
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93NAVAL STROKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 5
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