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VICTIMS OF TORPEDOING.
SIX MORE CHILDREN SAFE. EIGHT DAYS ON THE SEA. fUnited Press Association. —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 26.
Forty-six more survivors of the. City of Benares, the evacuee ship which was torpedoed in the Atlantic last week, were landed at a British port* to-night. They spent eight'days in a lifeboat before being sighted and picked up. Six more children were among those saved, leaving the number of child victims of torpedoing at 79. The survivors paid a tribute to tlie heroism -of the children during their anxious days of exposure at sea.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 301, 27 September 1940, Page 6
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