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APPARENTLY SUNK BY TORPEDO
LONDON, November 27. Swedish opinion is agitated as the. result of evidence showing that a torpedo and not a mine almost certainly sank the passenger steamer Hansa on Saturday morning, when in the Baltic en route to Gotland, says ' The Times ' Stockholm correspondent. Ninety lives were lost, and there were only two survivors, who say they saw a searchlight trained on the steamer immediately oefore the explosion and while they were later struggling in the water. Other circumstances also made experts dismiss the mine theory. A Wilhelmstrasse spokesman on Saturday went out of his way to assure the Swo"des that the Germans did not sink the Hansa. He elaborated the theory that the ship, may have struck a Russian mine.
ft is officially announced that as. the result of the sinking of the steamship Hansa the Swedish navy will henceforth convoy ships between Stockholm and Gotland.
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Evening Star, Issue 25344, 28 November 1944, Page 5
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