BRITISH LINERS
SUNK BY U-BOATS
ACCORDING TO GERMAN HIGH COMMAND.
OFF COAST OF AFRICA
(Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.)
LONDON, October 14
The German High Command announced that the British liners, Orcades and Duchess of Atholl had been sunk. U-boats, it is stated, sank the Orcades off Cape Town and the Duchess of Atholl between Freetown and Cape Town. Both ships were equipped to carry between 9,000 and 10,000 men, with their arms, to Egypt. Two other’ ships were sunk in the same waters.
A message from Freetown reports that 249 survivors, including 82 passengers, from a ship torpedoed in the Atlantic have landed there. A British Consul-General and also an Argentina Consul-General were among the survivors.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 4
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