FATE OF A UNION BOAT.
SUNK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. • Advice has . been received that a steamer belonging to the Union Company, under charter to the Imperial Government, has been torpedoed in the Mediterranean. All the crew have been saved. ■ •• Regarding" the Union Company's steamer torpedoed in the Mediterranean, the head office reports that there were | about 50 men on the ship, many of them j belonging to New Zealand, and that in j order to set at rest the minds of relatives, i all have been communicated with direct, the company sending an assurance of safety in each case. Some of. these messages have had to be to Australia, others to the United Kingdom, and the remainder to relatives in New ! Zealand. Persons who did not receive j these messages may .take it for granted j that -the men whom they are anxious (about were.not on the steamer when sha went down.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 71, 23 March 1918, Page 5
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