ITALIAN PRISONERS
600 KILLED BV GERMAN BOMBS IN ATTACK ON BRITISH LINER. AN AMERICAN REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, October 3. When German planes bombed the Cunard-While Star liner Georgic at a Suez port on July 13, 137 members of the crew and approximately 600 Italian prisoners, including two generals, lost their lives. This was revealed by members of the crew of the President Buchanan which was berthed a mile away from the Georgic when the attack was made. Two bombs set the Georgic on fire and then another Nazi pilot in a suicidal attempt to sink the liner crash-landed his bomb-laden plane on the deck. A terrific explosion followed. The Italian prisoners were trapped below decks and were burned to death.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 6
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