RAIDER'S AUXILIARIES INTERCEPTED
The Admiralty has informed the New Zealand Government (says a Press Association telegram) that the Australian cruiser Canberra (Captain H. B. Farncomb, M.V.0., R.A.N.) and the New Zealand cruiser Lsander (Captain R. H. Bevan, R.N.) have intercepted in the Indian Ocean a German merchant vessel and a Norwegian tanker, which had been captured by a German raider. The German merchant ship, which had been acting as supply ship for the raider, was the Coburg, of 7400 tons, and the tanker was the Ketty Brovig, of 7031 tons. Eighteen German officers and 47 German ratings were captured and are now prisoners of war. The persons rescued included a number of Norwegians and Chinese. This announcement follows the news received on Friday night that a German raider had been sunk in the Indian Ocean by H.M.S. Cornwall.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24604, 12 May 1941, Page 5
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