TOLL OF THE U-BOAT
» f FREE FRENCH LINER’S ESC APE I New York. May 19.1 It is reported from Willemstad. Curacao, that a United States merchantman was torpedoed on Saturday, off Bonaire Island, where 19 survivors* were landed. A battered Free French freighter; arrived at an eastern Canadian port after a running battle of three hours; With a U-boat. The crew declared; that the merchantman’s gun scored a direct hit on the U-boat, which is' beloved to have sunk. The freighter was hit twice by torpedoes, which failed to exnlode.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 117, 21 May 1942, Page 5
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