"MASS MURDER."
Survivor's Description Of Sinking Of Ship.
POHTT BELIEVED DEOWNED.
NEW YORK, December 27,
Eight survivors have boon landed from the -meat ship Kavnsota (8795 tons),' / which was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay on December 5, says a Capetown cable. The remaining 40 in the crew are believed to have been drowned, j One survivor described the torpedoing as "mass murder." Tlie Rio do Janeiro correspondent of the "New York Times" reports that 15 German ships in Br<uiliun ports are keeping steam up ready to depart. Soind havo already been loaded, while others »ro loading. It is "believed that they will leave singly, following the example of tho Bnhia Blanca, which is now conjectured to littVe rfeached the Reich safely.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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