ENGINE-ROOM FLOODED
PANAMANIAN SUBMERGED SABOTAGE SUSPECTED BALTIMORE, Mar. 22. (Received Mar. 22, at 10.30 p.m.) The Panamanian is lying alongside the pier partially submerged. Sabotage is suspected. The engineroqm and two holds were mysteriously flooded at night. A message received on March 5 stated: After five years of idleness the 15.000-ton President Fillmore, which has been renamed the Panamanian, will enter -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. She later transported 25,000 American troops. Mr Arnold Bernstein, an exiled German whose merchant fleet was seized by the Nazis, is operating the Panamanian under the Panama flag.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 12
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114ENGINE-ROOM FLOODED Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 12
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