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Women And Children Adrift For 19 Days SURVIVORS REACH PORT Rec. 10.30 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 27. A woman missionary and four children who prayed intermittently for 19 days in a lifeboat after being torpedoed were among the survivors of two United Nations ships who landed on the east coast of America. A small United States merchantman has been torpedoed in the North Atlantic and a medium-sized ship lost off the north coast of bouth A 'Ships 3 laden with military supplies and civilian necessities consigned for Panama are again traversing the Caribbean safely under convoy, supplemented wide-rang-inc aerial patrols. According to an American United Press c °^ es P°?" dent aboard a destroyer atf. Axis submarines in that area we eithe sunk or driven elsewhere.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 255, 28 October 1942, Page 3
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