SUNK OFF NORWAY
AXIS MUNITIONS SHIP. ABOUT 400 GERMAN SOLDIERS DROWNED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, June 22. The 3,000 ten German ship Birka was sunk off the Norwegian coast, cutside Trondheim, on June 10, according to the Norwegian Government in London. The ship was on its way from Trondheim to Kirkenes, in Northern Norway, and carried a cargo of ammunition and petrol. It also had aboard 800 German soldiers, about half of whom were rescued.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1943, Page 4
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