GERMAN SHIP SUNK
BELIEVED TO BE AN ARMED RAIDER SOUTH ATLANTIC ACTION BRITISH ( Rl ISER’S SI (CESS (By Telcgrai h PrcM Awociation —Copyright.) <Recd. 11.40 p.m.) London. Dec. 1. The Admiral!v announces the sinking of a German ship believed to be an armed merchant raider, in the South Atlantic. An Admiralty communique stated that on November 28 ILM.S. Devonshire <9850 tons Captain R. D. Olliver. D. 5.0.) received word as the result of air reconnaissance, of the presence of a strange ship in th<* South Atlantic, answering tn th<* description of an armed merchant raider. N) satisfactory replies were obtained to signals to this vessel and H.M .S Devonshire opened fire. The vessel endeavoured to escape behind a smoke screen, hut was soon on lire and the < row took Io the boats. The magazine afierwards blew up. The prrsriier of >< I boat in th'* vicinity wn< coiilirnird and, (nr Ihh rriiMUi, no survivor* could be picked up.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 284, 2 December 1941, Page 5
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157GERMAN SHIP SUNK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 284, 2 December 1941, Page 5
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