FREIGHTER SCUTTLED

Grey River Argus, 26 January 1943, Page 4

FREIGHTER SCUTTLED

DISGUISED AS NORWEGIAN/

(Receiver Jan, 25, 1710 a.m.)i

SOMEWHERE IN TIME ATLANTIC, January 24.

A British Associated Press correspondent says that German sailors manning a blockade running- freighter, disguised as a Norwegian, ran up the Nazi flag and scuttled the ship under the guns of an American Naval force on the Atlantic in November. This was announced by Vice-Admiral Ingram, Commanding Allied South Atlantic operations, that the ship was presumably bound for Japan. The cargo included clothing, lime, medicine, coils of wirei rope, paint, pigments/cocoanut fibre and rope. Also aboard was an armed motor torpedoboat. Prompt American action prevented the Germans from launching it. Sixty-two officers and men, ot whom twenty-four were believed to be members of the navy, were made prisoners.