AMERICAN LINER FLOODED.
SABOTAGE SUSPECTED. USED IN WAR TRADE. Received March 23. IT a.m. BALTIMORE (Maryland). March 22. The 15,000 ton liner Panamanian is lying alongside a pier partially •'submerged. Sabotage is suspected. The engineroom and two holds were mysteriously flooded at night. A message received on March 4 stated : After five years idleness, the 15,000 tons liner President Fillmore, renamed the Panamanian, is entering the war trade on March 9 The Panamanian as the Mongolia in 1917 fired the first American shot in the Great War, -sinking a U-boat. Later it transported 25.000 American troops. Arnold Bernstein, the exiled German, whose merchant fleet was seized by the Nazis, is operating the Panamanian under the Panama flag.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 97, 23 March 1940, Page 7
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117AMERICAN LINER FLOODED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 97, 23 March 1940, Page 7
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