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IN WESTERN ATLANTIC AND GULF OF MEXICO. AMERICAN OFFICIAL REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 17. An Axis submarine, operating close inshore in the Gulf of Mexico, torpedoed and set on fire a medium-sized United States cargo vessel at anchor. The Navy Department disclosed this in announcing the. loss of four more merchant vessels, in which 29 men perished. The other sinkings were a mediumsized Norwegian merchantman, 300 miles off the Atlantic coast, a small Norwegian merchantman, torpedoed in the Gulf and a medium-sized United States vessel, sunk off the Atlantic coast of South America.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1942, Page 4
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104SHIPS LOST Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1942, Page 4
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