MOSTLY SAFE
OFFICERS & MEN OF CRUISER MANCHESTER 145 PICKED UP BY BRITISH SHIPS. REMAINDER IN FRENCH HANDS, s LONDON, August 17. An Admiralty communique states that information has been received that most of the officers and the ship’s company of the cruiser Manchester, lost in the recent Malta convoy battle in the Mediterranean, are safe. Three officers and 142 men were picked up by British warships, and the remaining survivors are in French hands. According to an account given by an eyewitness, the Manchester was hit by a torpedo from an E-boat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1942, Page 2
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92MOSTLY SAFE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1942, Page 2
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