Pictured above is the s. Ranpura, sister ship to the s. Rawalpindi which has been sunk with a loss of about 280 lives. The Rawalpindi was a familiar sight to Shanghailanders, having been im service between Britain and the Far East before the outbreak of hostilities.
She had been converted into an armed -merchant cruiser shortly after the war began. The Polish liner, s. Pilsudski, pictured below, was sunk in the North Sea when the vessel is believed to have struck a mine,
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