EAST AFRICAN RAIDER
ADMIRAL SCHEER IDENTIFIED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON. November 18. The Cape Town correspondent of “The Times” states that the identity of the German raider which sank the Africa Shell is definitely established as the pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer. „ T A special representative of a Louienc Marques newspaper flew to Inhambane and showed members ot the crew of the African Shell a selection of warship pictures from which each selected the Admiral Scheer as the attacker. . GERMAN SHIP SCUTTLED LONDON, November 19. The captain and 57 seamen of a German vessel have been landed at .a Scottish seaport. They scuttled their ship when a British patrol vessel ordered her to stop. MERCHANTMAN CAPTURED LONDON, November 19. The German steamer Gloria with 5000 tons of cargo, including wheat, has been taken to a Scottish port with the prize crew aboard. The German crew were interned. GERMAN LINERS SAIL. LONDON, November 19.
News from Lobito, in Angola, to-day states two German liners, the Windhuk and Adolf Woermann, have unobtrusively departed for an unknown destination.
CHARTERED BY AMERICANS.
NEW YORK. November 19
The Black Diamond Line has chartered two Danish and one Italian ship, namely the Stahl and Christian Borg and the San Leonardo. The line expects to charter a total of eight or ten respectively for regular sailings to Rotterdam and Antwerp.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 November 1939, Page 7
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