SURFACE RAIDER IN ATLANTIC
PURSUIT BY ALLIED CRUISER NEW YORK, August 12. A German surface raider is being pursued by an Allied cruiser after an attack on a merchant ship off Brazil, reports the Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the "New York Times.’ The raider is believed to be a fast oilburning vessel which sank an Allied ship on Sunday. . . , _ . According to the Associated Press of America sinkings of ships in the Western Atlantic since December 7 now total 420. The United States Navy announces that a small Dutch merchantman has been torpedoed off South America with the loss of 23 lives.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23716, 14 August 1942, Page 4
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