The crack German liner Columbus} (32581 tons), on sighting a British warship some 400 miles north of Bermuda, was set on fire by her own crew, according to an Admiralty announcement today. The crew then abandoned ship, leaving her to the merey of the flames, Earlier reports stated British] destroyers were waiting in the Gulf of Florida for the liner, which sailed fon Thursday from Vera Cruz, for an unknown destination.
One of Norddeutscher Lloyd's largest liners, the Columbus was put into service in 1922, and was fu the trans-Auantic run until the outbreak of war.
Reports received here from Washington state that the entire crew has been saved.
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