BATTLE WITH U-BOAT
FOUGHT BY FREE FRENCH FREIGHTER ENEMY CRAFT PROBABLY SUNK. TORPEDOES FAIL TO EXPLODE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) OTTAWA, May 19. A battered Free French freighter arrived at an Eastern Canadian port after a three-hour running battle with a U-boat. Members of the crew declared that the merchantman’s gun scored a direct hit on the U-boat, which is believed to have been sunk. The freighter was hit twice by two torpedoes which failed to explode. AMERICAN SHIP SUNK IN CARIBBEAN. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) WILLEMSTAD (Curacao) , May 19. A United States merchantman has been torpedoed off Bonaire Island, where 19 survivors have been landed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1942, Page 3
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