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NAZI SEA RAIDER SOUTH ATLANTIC . (10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 13. A German sea raider is being pursued by an Allied cruiser after an attack on a merchantman off Brazil, reports the New York Times correspondent at Rio de Janiero. The raider is believed to be a fast oilburner, which sank an Allied ship on Sunday. . , , „ According to the Associated Press, the records of sinking of ships in the western / Atlantic since December 7 have reached 420. The Navy Department announced that a small Dutch merchantman was torpedoed off South America with the loss of 23 lives.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 3
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