FINE WAR RECORD
(Special to "The Evening Post")
' . AUCKLAND, This Day. Few merchant vessels afloat can. boast a war record as distinguished as that of the Ellerman-Bueknall Line steamer City of Khartoum, formerly the Karroo, which arrived at Auckland from New York yesterday. "Well done, Karroo," was a wireless message sent cut by Admiral Sir Lewis Bayley for all ships to pick up after one of tho Karroos stirring and triumphant fightt hours'long with a German submarine. This is but one incident in the British freighter's war record. She sent th« news of the whereabouts of the raider Bmden to the flagship of the Australian. convoy, she landed the first field gun at Anzac, and she fought many submarines, time and again escaping the das* gers of naval wa^ "^
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 6
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129FINE WAR RECORD Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 6
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