LEFT TO HER FATE.
■ — . SHIP IN DISTRESS. \ Passenger Liner Leave s Sinking Freighter. TWO OTHERS STAItfD BY. {United P.A.—Electric Telegrapi i—Copyright) (Received 10.30 a.m.)* NEW YORK, Dei member 9. The liner France sent a ra<lio message that, owing to the heavy sea! ; and headj winds, it was unable to aid the British freighter Volumnia, and was proceeding to New York leaving the si nking ship and crew in mid-ocean with two cargo boats standing by unable to '.help. The France's brief message said that she received the Volumnia's S.O.S. on Sunday and went to her, but tl ie sea was too rough for the lifeboats. After a radio conference with the Vol umnia and the two unnamed cargo boa ts it was decided that since the France carried mails and passengers it should proceed. The Volumnia left Wales j F or Philadelphia and Boston on Noveml) er 15, but was disabled the same day and put back to Falmouth, whence she de.j parted on November 18.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 292, 10 December 1929, Page 7
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