The Archive · 1939

German Tanker Virtually

Commits Suicide

New York, Nov. 2 The German, tanker Eminy. Filed rich vislually "committed suicide" Enkin in-preference to failing. ino the hands of a Brith eraser tu the Caribbean Sea, according to dispatch from Panama, published in the "New York "times When "an. armed, boarding party wont aboard the tanker, says. the message, they. found the "crew Sout forty Germans standing by the "The captain informed the boarding party thatthe ship was sinking as the Eeacocks had! been opened and. the "The bonrdins poly and crew lett the tanker, and the cruiser stood by until the vessel sank.

cargo. of 40000 barrels of Mex!= can oil is believed tohave been carried by the tanker-—Reuter.

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