ROUBAIX DISASTER.
FIVE CHILDREN SAFE. A HERO OP THIRTEEN. PARIS August 11. There ha 3 been a sensational sequel to the Roubaix beach drowning disaster. Five of the 18 children who were supposed to have been drowned have returned. When 13 bodies had been recovered, the search for the other five children | who were missing was continued all I night long. Finally it was discovered that four boys had been rescued by the fifth boy. I Marcel Appincourt. aged 13. who had coolly punched the heads of the rest in order to quieten them. All five then became panic-stricken and hid in the woods for the night.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 12 August 1925, Page 7
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