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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 270, 14 November 1928, Page 7

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MANY BODIES SEEN.

Search For Survivors To Be

Discontinued.

NO MOBE CAN BE BESCUED.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

(Received 11 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, November 13.

Vice-Admiral Taylor, of the battleship Wyoming, wirelessed on Tuesday that the search would probably come to an end, with from 132 to 136 persons still unaccounted for. The battleship Wyoming is planning to withdraw. She reported sho sighted "a number of dead," and it was "not thought possible that any could be living" beyond those already saved from the icy rough sea.

The plan for the Los Angeles to aid in the search was abandoned when the Wyoming stated that it was unnecessary, for the coastguard would pick up the bodies.

Vice-Admiral Taylor of the Wyoming radioed the Navy Department early yesterday afternoon that eight lifeboats and one make-shift raft had left the Vestris. One boat and a raft capsized fifteen minutes before the first rescue ship arrived. Some were picked up, but "others have been afloat ever since."

The Admiral sent a message stating that eight boats and one makeshift raft left the Vestris. One boat capsized at six p.m. on Monday. Some of her people were picked up. The raft had evidently broken up. Other boats were picked up.

DISEASE ON SHIP.

Crew Of 27 Suffering From Beriberi. BOUND FOB AUCKLAND. (Received 11.30 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, this day. The Finnish ship Olive Bank arrived en route to Auckland from St. Pierre with a cargo of phosphates. The whole crew of 27 is suffering more or less from beriberi, rendering the management of the ship difficult. One man died just after the ship anchored inside the Port Phillip Heads, the captain having decided in a desperate situation to make for Melbourne to obtain fresh provisions.

Beriberi is a form of perrphera neuritis, in which the characteristic symptoms are oppressive breathing, oedema, paralytic weakness, and numbness in the lower extremities. It has been taken to England by sailors, and has appeared among the crews of the ships for months after reaching port. Its cause is not yet understood, but the balance of evidence seems to point to its being a form of chronic poisoning, probably due to unwholesome diet. The disease clings to districts and ships. There is no specific remedy for it, and recovery is generally spontaneous.

TOWED TO PORT.

DISABLED STEAMEB RESCUED

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) . (Received 11.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, November 13. The steamer Riefontein was towed to Durban to-day with her propeller snapped off. Luckily a strong wind countered- the currents and her sister ship, the Nykerk, which picked her up, avoided a disaster by half an hour.