RUN AGROUND.
TWO ITALIAN LINERS. WHEW SIGHTED BY PLANE. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) CAPETOWN, June 11. The authorities have seized the Italian ship Sistiana which was lying in Table Bay. The two others, the Gerusalemme and the Timayo, which departed from Durban on Monday, deliberately run aground on the African coast when they were sighted by an armed merchant cruiser and a South African Air Force plane.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 209, 12 June 1940, Page 6
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