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US. Destroyers Seen United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright TAMPICO, November 17 The Comander of the Mexican gunboat Queretara, Lieutenant Cuahutemoc Perez Zavala, said it had been established that three American destroyers were the warships the Germans saw when they went to sea. The United States naval attache in Mexico City, Comander Wallace Dilon, said there were no United States warships at Tampico, but it is noted that he did not deny that they may have been off the coast. A report yesterday by German merchant captains alleged that they had been intercepted by British destroyers and had been forced to return to port.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21815, 19 November 1940, Page 5
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106NAZI MISTAKE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21815, 19 November 1940, Page 5
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