FREIGHTER SUNK
BOATS MACHINE-GUNNED
WORK OF A GERMAN RAIDER
(Received September 26, 2 p.m.)
NEW YORK, September 25. Survivors of a British freighter have
landed at Barranquilla. Venezuela. They report that a German raider sank the ship off Trinidad on September 3. Thereafter they machine-gunned the lifeboats.
The survivors drifted for a fortnight before being picked up by a tanker.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 76, 26 September 1940, Page 12
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