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    A German U-boat attacked an Allied convoy in the Atlantic northwest of Vigo, Spain, sinking a British tanker and French freighter. Fifteen sailors were lost when the U-boat torpedoed the two ships, though some survivors were rescued by Spanish sailors. The first ship, a British tanker carrying oil, was set ablaze but its crew managed to beach it on the coast to save those remaining onboard. The second, a French freighter carrying grain, sank within minutes. Additionally, an Argentine freighter was reported sunk off the coast of Spain by torpedo, with fourteen of its twenty-eight crew missing.

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    A German U-boat attacked an Allied convoy in the Atlantic northwest of Vigo, Spain, sinking a British tanker and French freighter. Fifteen sailors were lost when the U-boat torpedoed the two ships, though some survivors were rescued by Spanish sailors. The first ship, a British tanker carrying oil, was set ablaze but its crew managed to beach it on the coast to save those remaining onboard. The second, a French freighter carrying grain, sank within minutes. Additionally, an Argentine freighter was reported sunk off the coast of Spain by torpedo, with fourteen of its twenty-eight crew missing.

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    A German U-boat attacked an Allied convoy in the Atlantic northwest of Vigo, Spain, sinking a British tanker and French freighter. Fifteen sailors were lost when the U-boat torpedoed the two ships, though some survivors were rescued by Spanish sailors. The first ship, a British tanker carrying oil, was set ablaze but its crew managed to beach it on the coast to save those remaining onboard. The second, a French freighter carrying grain, sank within minutes. Additionally, an Argentine freighter was reported sunk off the coast of Spain by torpedo, with fourteen of its twenty-eight crew missing.

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    U-BOAT ATTACKS ALLIED CONVOY

    $ritish Vessel 8eac{ie=d E French Ship Is Sunk


    Vigo, Spain, May 29 (BUP1 .-Fif teen men were lost today when a German submarine attacked an Ah lied convoy and torpedoed the 2,406" ton British tanker Telena and the 5,000-ton French freighter il2aria Josefa. Spanish sailors recovered five bodies. Among the survivors were thin" teen injured crew members wha were taken to the Provincial Hos" pital at Pontevedra . Only Sour members of the Tel+ ena's crew were British, the rest being Chinese . (The Associated Press xeport9 that U-boats are lurking on the course the United States liner Wash" ington will take en route to Bor" Beaux, France, to pick up American; refugees .) The Meneheta agency xeporteii . that the submarine attack, the first; in several weeks against rnerchauC shipping in the Atlantic, occurred, approximately forty miles north" west of Vigo outside Spanish terri" torial waters. The Maria Josefa sank within a few minutes, but the Telena, its superstructure ablaze a~1 result, of an explosion, succeeded in; reaching the coast, where it way beached . The captain and sis of ficers who remained aboard werd saved. The Telena, which was s.rme~ with deck guns, was en route from Gibraltar to Pagona with 10,000 tons of oil. The Maria Josefa was carrying 5,000 tons of grain from Casablanca to Bordeaux. Argentine Ship Sunk. 1Yladrid, May 29 (BUP) . --~ 'The 3,425-ton Argentine freighter Uruguay was torpedoed off Cape FinisLerre, an the western coast of Spain, the Mencheta agency reported today from La Coruna . Fourteen members of the crew o .t twenty-eight that left Buenos Aires on April 26 were said to be missing . Ail crew members were Argentineans . The vessel was torpedoed Tuesday, according to the agency. The Uruguay, owned by the Mihanovicb. Argentine Navigation Company of Buenos Aires and commanded by Captain Antonio Garcia, was loaded with 6,000 tons of Argentine wheat. The cargo was intended for Antwerp, but after the invasion of the Low Countries by Germany, the owners instructed Captain Garcia that they were trying to place the wheat elsewhere.

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