SHIPS HIT WRECKAGE.
MENACE OFF THE EAST COAST. SURVIVORS BROUGHT ASHORE. (Received This Ray, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON!, November 14. An east coast lifeboat, after 17 liours at sea, landed 46 survivors of two British ships which struck the same submerged wreckage on November 5. Another British steamer struck tho same wreckage on November 4. IDENTITY OF THE VICTIM. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 14. It is revealed that the' Ponzano, cabled yesterday, not the Matra, as cabled to-day, was the ship that, sunk an hour after the destroyer. The locality of the sinking of the Matra is not disclosed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 30, 15 November 1939, Page 5
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