GERMAN FLEET
PRESENT DISPOSITION.
LONDON, May 22.
The ten-thousand-ton German cruiser "Prinz Eugen” is now in Kiel after the successful British naval torpedo attack of last Sunday, in which two torpedoes., and possibly a third, hit the vessel. The “Prinz Eugen” was observed creeping down the Norwegian coast, escorted by destroyers and fighters, and the Britisn aircraft came in under heavy opposition. . T 1 It is now revealed in London that the German battle cruiser Scnarnhorst,” and the heavy cruiser Nurnberg” are with the Prinz q + I/” 1' pl The cruiser “Seydlitz” is at Bremen and the damaged Gneisenau is being repaired at a Baltic port. The newly-completey aircraft-car-rier, “Graz Zeppelin” is also sheltering in the Baltic.
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Grey River Argus, 25 May 1942, Page 5
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