PACIFIC COMMERCE RAIDERS
The following Associated Press message from San Pedro, California, dated April 20, appeared in the “Gazette” of Montreal on April 21:— Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence AL Cosgrave, Canadian Trade Commissioner to Australia, declared on Saturday that four-motored Consolidated bombers had sunk or driven out of action German commerce raiders operating in the far Pacific. Colonel Cosgrave arrived in the Mat-son-Oceanic liner Monterey, en route to Ottawa. He reported that in Australia, “we put many German experts, interned at the .start of the war, -to work designing tools and planes for defence of the Empire.”
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 208, 30 May 1941, Page 8
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