Word: samana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another possibility: the Germans were getting supplies from the Dominican Republic, whose dictator, General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina has been called pro-Nazi. It was reported last week, and quickly denied, that Dominican Coast Guard Cutter No. 3 had been sunk off Samana Peninsula "in an accidental collision with a French cruiser." Private advices in Manhattan were that the cutter had been caught piping fuel into German submarines, and was sunk by gunfire from the French ship; that furthermore, stations had been set up on shore for submarine repairs...
British authorities at Nassau last week heard that a wrecked trawler had just been found on lonely Samana Cay, 300 miles southeast. At once they leaped to the conclusion that the wreck was the mysterious Girl Pat, brand new trawler which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day and, after lurid adventures, was last reported fortnight ago off Guiana (TIME, June 8 & 22). Before they could investigate, the Girl Pat turned up safely at Georgetown, British Guiana...