REPORT AND DENIAL
TORPEDOING OF U.S. DESTROYER
(Received July 8, 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 7. The United States destroyer Barry, en route to Balboa to take Mr. Biddle, former Ambassador in Poland, to London, sent an SOS that she had been struck by a German submarine 400 miles from Spain and was sinking. It is not stated whether she was torpedoed or had a collision. (Received July 8, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 7. The Navy Department denied that the Barry has been torpedoed, and said it had received a communication from the vessel, which "is not in distress but is safely at anchor in neutral waters."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 7, 8 July 1940, Page 7
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