BRITISH SEAMEN
SURVIVORS FROM TORPEDOED SHIPS. BILLETTED ON PORTUGUESE ISLAND. (Ey Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 22. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Gibraltar correspondent says that 140 British seamen whose vessels were torpedoed are living on the Portuguese island of Sao Miguel. The correspondent recently visited the island and found the Britons fretting to participate again in the Battle of the Atlantic. Men are billeted with the residents, who have lent a building for a club. The Portuguese are showing open sympathy with the British cause.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 7
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84BRITISH SEAMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 7
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