FRENCH SHIP’S CREW.
RELEASE FROM CAPTIVITY. SYDNEY, March 8. The Sydney agents of the ShawSavill lino yesterday released tho.names of 42 members of the crew of the French liner Commissaire Hamel, 10,161 tens, who- had been detained as prisoners of Avar, and were reported by cablegram to he safe and Avell at Kilindini, in Kenya Colony (British East' Africa). The Commissaire llamcl was lost by enemy action in the Indian Ocean soon after leaving Australian -waters for the United Kingdom in September.
The men whose safety lias now been established joined the vessel-at Sydney. They appear to have been among the 200, Allied seamen rescued from Me l* lea*, south of Mogadislio, capital of Ltalisin Somaliland, where they were held for many months until that part of East Africa into British hands a feW days ago.
These men, it was reported, Avere the ctgavs of ships sunk hv a German raider in the ’lndian Ocean and landed on the coast ef Italian Somaliland on November 23, after having been held captive in the raider under trying conditions for a considerable time. It is understood that the Commissaire Hamel was sunk by gunfire.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 147, 3 April 1941, Page 7
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