TWENTY-FIVE DROWNED

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 7

TWENTY-FIVE DROWNED

.j LOSS OF THE LARISTAN. RESCUES FROM ANTINOE. TERRIBLE ATLANTIC STORM. ' (By Coble.— rress Association. — Copyright.i iTlpeeivpil 10 a.m.) XEW YORK, -January 2S. A message from Halfax states that t a wireless received there » ; from tlie (ierman liner Bremen indicates j J that the British 4<mO-tnn steamer Lari--1 stan. which was in dietmss ot that pnrt. 3 i has gone to pieces'. Her crew of '2-3 men I were drowned. ?! Fnr two days the Lariftan had battled rjajjaiim wind and snow in the North ? i Atlantic. i] The Bremen, which had been standing ,j by since rescued six men on Tuesfjday. has now abandoned the search for i other survivors. ? During a lull in th* -form, after the -Antinoe had been wallowing for three t I day*, with the liiicr President Roosevelt F standing liy. the remaining 13 members > of the crew were rescued early this - j morning. t The seamen of the Antinoe and the other 12 who were transferred to the - President Roosevelt on Wednesday are * all weak with hunger and exposure.—(A. t and N.Z. and Renter.) THE LINER OLYMPIC. I ~~ ' t RUMOUR OF DANGER. s ■ ; NO CONFIRMATION. c NEW YORK, January 2S. c "Rumours were in circulation in New I York last night that the White Star . liner Olympic was in distress. However, r I Mr. P. A, S. Franklin, president of the ! International Mercantile Marine, declares that the reports are nonsense. The c vessel had only left Southampton yes--i terday, and had not had time to clear s the English Channel. A report from Columbus. Indiana, says - an S.O.S. call, which was believed to have come from the Olympic, was received over a radio set there. Naval authorities at Washington have i not received any radio distress call from i the liner. i At Boston the steamer Seythia reported early this morning that she had * heard no distress calls from the Olympic. (Retiter.)