WRECK OF THE DELHI.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 299, 16 December 1911, Page 5

WRECK OF THE DELHI.

FBHTCEBS' JEWELS LOST. THREE LASCARS DBOWBID. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Cop3wlght.ll TANGIER, December 15. Most of the passengers of the wrecked steamer Delhi escaped half naked. The natives did their best to relieve, their sufferings. The Princess Royal's jewel case was washed from the boat and lost. Three Lascars were drowned while taking tjie passengers through the surf after the Duke and Duchess of Fife had landed. Almost all the boats capsized owing to the heavy surf. The passengers waded waist deep to the shore. The last of them were rescued by nKans of a rocket apparatus. jMOKE rescuers drowned. 160 OF CREW STILE ABOARD. IGNORED MESSAGES. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 15. The "Shipping Gazette" protests against the naval authorities at Gibraltar ignoring the Delhi's wireless messages, on the ground that they did not take commercial messages. The captain of the Delhi says that be was -teaming slowly and continuously using the lead- Suddenly she touched three times, and then remained fast. Heavy rain obscured the land. The crew is landing slowly, and 160 arc still aboard: also one passenger, whose leg is broken. It is impossible to land bira by a rope. Two Rritisli bluejackets and two of the Delhi's Lascar crew were drowned in the rescue work. ALEXANDRA'S MESSAGE. SACRIFICE OF THE BRAVE. LONDON". December 15. Queen Alexandra telegraphed to President Fallieres to-day her grateful thanks for the noble services of the French sailors. She profoundly deplored the sacrifice of brave men.