Contagiously curious if you are talking of the same German sailor turned watchmaker who set up shop in Panjim? The one I am addressing to had his shop set opposite the High Court, or adjacent to Damodar Mangalji. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> In the early 70’s, I was referred to him when I was having difficulty deciphering how to unload a Russian camera I had purchased. That German gentleman took on the challenge and after tinkering with it for a short while, figured it out. His fee: A gracious smile! In whatever calm or choppy waters of Eternity his ship is currently anchored, Almighty blessings! As someone said: “People are not bad. Only individuals are!” Dom Martin P.S.: I still have that Russian camera in my collection, as a memento of a fellow Goan who scuttled his bad buy on to me! In a message dated 11/15/2009 10:59:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org writes:Message: 7 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:22:16 -0800 (PST) From: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro <vrangel...@yahoo.com> To: "estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] World War II German presence in Goa Message-ID: <850161.38242...@web30103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Dear Vivian, ???? The German ships raced into Mormugao harbour to avoid being captured by the British naval forces, not to avoid being torpedoed by them! Far from torpedoing them, the British would gladly have used them to replace some of their own ships that were lost to the German submarines in the area. ???? The British raid on one of the ships in the Zuari took place on March 9, 1943, and not at the beginning of the war, as Selma stated (the war began in 1939). So the masts of the sunken ships you saw in 1947 were indeed the masts of those ships. But only one, the Ehrenfels, had been attacked by the British raiders; the others?were scuttled by their own crews out of fear that they too?were about to be attacked. ???? In the early 1990s I?met several times with?the German sailor turned?watchmaker who set up shop in Panjim, and tried to persuade him to write his memoirs, but he had no interest in doing so. A pity, because he would have?had much to tell! ???? Regards, ???? Victor? ____________________________________________________________ Top Online Degrees Earn your AS, BS, or Masters degree from the top schools, 100% online! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=Jh6tBuhb_5vcRXx6YFJZhwAAJ1AcvAXPqsTxxVXL-5uq-HCNAAQAAAAFAAAAAMVswj4AAAMlAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABSMAAAAAA=
