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This week a Nazi bomber swooped down on the British India passenger steamer Domala, packed with Lascar refugees who had been interned in Germany, dropped three bombs squarely on her decks. With the bomber circling overhead and (so said the survivors) spitting machine gun bullets, passengers and sailors who had not been killed by the bombs began dropping into the water, many to drown. Dutch and British freighters rescued 189 of the 295 aboard the Domala, which was later towed to port. The 106 who died made up the war's second largest noncombatant casualty list (Athenia, 112, Simon...
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