The Archive · 1940

To Sightseers

San Francisco, Nov. 14.

The s. Bremen, Germany's greatest. luxury liner, which was sald.to have been turned into a troop transport, was sunk off northern Denmark, the Danish-Norwegian newspaper "Bien" said here yesterday. The Bremem apparently was sunk by a torpedo and now lies at the bottom of the Kattegat, four miles off the coast of northern Denmark, according to unconfirmed advices to editors of the San Francisco newspaper.

Hundreds of excursionists pay 25 cents each to be ferried out to the scene of the sinking and gaze at the Bremen's super-structure which rises above the sea, the reports sai, "Hundreds of bodies are floating in the Oresund" in the vicinity of the ship said one letter to the newspaper:

The letters recalled unconfirmed rumours that the Bremen was sunk while carrying 15,000 troops.—United Press.

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