SHARKS TAKE TOLL
TORPEDOED SHIP ITALIANS ABOARD (.10 a.m.) PRETORIA, Doc. 13. Six survivors who have arrived at a South African port state that the steamer Amarylis, bound from Suez to Durban, was torpedoed on December 2 off the Natal coast. Sharks took a terrible toll of the swimmers.
Italian prisoners of war from the Amarylis screamed to the U-boat commander for help, but only one was taken aboard the submarine.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20966, 14 December 1942, Page 6
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