The Archive · 1939

U.S. Ship Rescues 300 Survivors in Atlantic

Ellerman Liner s. City of Mandalay Torpedoed Washington, Oct. 18.

Three hundred survivors from the Ellerman line vessel City of Mand-

Atlantic by the Independence Hall, méssag Maritime Commission, reporting the rescue.

The City of Mandalay, it is learned, was attacked by a U-boat. Previously the owners had received only an announcement of the sinking.

The Indepedence Háll is on th: way from Bordeaux to New York. She reported her position, when sending the message to the Maritima Commission, as 500 miles west of the French coast—Reuter.

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