MURDEROUS ATTACK
ON YUGOSLAV STEAMER IN MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL. SEVEN MEN KILLED & OTHERS WOUNDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, June 17. The Yugoslav steamer Supertar was torpedoed on June 13, in the Mozambique Channel, 100 miles south of Beira. The first officer said the torpedo struck the Supertar and then the submarine surfaced, fired two more torpedoes and also shelled the ship and its lifeboats, killing seven members of the crew and wounding the captain and three men. Twenty-three survivors have arrived in Cape Town.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1942, Page 4
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