NAZI SYMPATHISERS.
| GERMANS ON ARANDORA STAR. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. I Mr. R. H. Cross, Minister of Shipping, in the House of Commons, said that in accordance with the usual practice the Arandora Star was not convoyed. Faster passenger ships proceeded independently... and slower ones were convoyed. All the, Germans aboard were Nazi sympathisers.' None were refugees or friendly aliens. An adequate military guard was provided, and there were sufficient lifebelts for all. The 15,000-ton Blue Star liner Arandora Star was torpedoed by a U-boat on July 3 while carrying Italian and German internees from Britain' to Canada.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 162, 10 July 1940, Page 7
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