VALIANT SACRIFICE
OF TWO BRITISH OFFICERS MANY GERMANS LURED ABOARD CAMBELTOWN. PRIOR TO EXPLOSION AT ST NAZAIRE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, June 7. Further information 'has reached Combined Headquarters of an aftermath in the' raid on St Nazaire, confirming the Free French report that when the destroyer Cambeltown blew up there was a large party of German officers and technicians on board and that these were killed by the explosion. Two British officers induced this party to go aboard by denying that there was a charge of explosives on the ship and went on board themselves with the Germans. The names of the British officers who thus deliberately gave up their lives are not known, but their fortitude in leading the Germans to their death is an example of x calm self-sacrifice which cannot be surpassed. It is known that towns in the neighbourhood of St Nazaire were a scene of considerable panic among the Germans, who supposed that a British invasion had begun. Lorient and Brest were placed in a state of siege by the Germans.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 3
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182VALIANT SACRIFICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 3
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