DORIC STAR CREW
News Of New Zealander
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 11. The first intimation of the fate of. the crew of the Blue Star Line steamer Doric Star, sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee early in December, was received in Auckland today, when Mrs. W. Lynch, mother of one of the ship’s gun crew, was advised by the Admiralty that her son was believed to be aboard the German steamer Alpnark. No information is available of the whereabouts of the Alpnark, but the Admiralty message states that further information will be given when it conies to hand.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 92, 12 January 1940, Page 11
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102DORIC STAR CREW Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 92, 12 January 1940, Page 11
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