MURDER TACTICS
ATTACKS ON MERCHANTMEN BY U-BOATS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NORFOLK (Virginia), April 8. The Navy announced that enemy submarines shelled and torpedoed two additional merchantmen off the Atlantic coast last week, causing a probable loss of 37 lives. Savage shellfire sank a small freighter on the night of April 2, killing 17 of the crew. Eleven others are missing, and there are only three known survivors. On April 4 a pair of torpedoes transformed a medium-sized ship into an inferno. Twenty-eight survivors from this ship have reached here, and nine are missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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94MURDER TACTICS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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