WARSHIP TO RESCUE
BRITISH VESSEL FREED (Independent Cable Service.) (ißecd. March 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 18. The warship Sussex in a radio report to the Admiralty says that in response to an iSOS, she went to the assistance of the British freighter Stanhope which was held up by an armed Spanish merchant ship outside territorial waters. She freed the Stanhope which was en route to Gibraltar. A report from Barcelona says that the Stangate, which is a sister ship to the Stanhope, is (being taken to Palm a.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19891, 20 March 1939, Page 5
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