SEA WARFARE
AIR CARRIER’S CASUALTIES.
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(Recd. August 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 19.
The Admiralty list of casualties from the Glorious contains about six hundred names, including 33 officers killed and 43 missing.
(Recd. August 20, 12.30 p.m.). LONDON, August 19.
The Admiralty list of casualties in the Glorious is complete, the total being 1,204. Commander G. DoylyHughes was among those killed. Sev-enty-one ratings are listed as killed, and 869 as missing, The R.A.F. casualties are five killed and 35 missing.
FREIGHTER BOARDED.
(Recd. August 20, 11.25 a.m.). SAN FRANCISCO, August 19
The American freighter Herman Frasch has radioed to all United States naval and commercial stations the following message: “Stopped and boarded at 3.20 p.m. by Mexican gunboat, 70 miles north-w’est of Agapulco. Not allowed to proceed. Now being boarded by armed forces.” The message did not. indicate the reasons.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1940, Page 7
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