CAPTAIN'S SURPRISE
(Received July 25, 12.50 p.m.) ALEXANDRIA, July 24. When the captain of the Bortolomeo Colleoni was carried into a cabin on the hospital ship where he died he asked what ship had destroyed his. "The Sydney/ was the reply. The captain was greatly surprised, and declared that the Sydney was among the ships which the Italians believed to have been sunk some time ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 22, 25 July 1940, Page 11
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