LAUNCH SINKS NEAR SAMOA
* Sixteen Natives Drowned FOUR SURVIVORS REACH LAND IN DINGHY U’RESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, January 19. The Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department has been advised by the Superintendent of Apia radio station that the motorboat Tiafau, which left Apia yesterday, with Australian and New Zealand mails to connect with the Monterey at Pago Pago, and 16 passengers and a crew of four, sank 15 miles off Aleipata. The captain and three passengers reached Aleipata in a dinghy. Sixteen Samoans were drowned and all the mails lost.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21685, 20 January 1936, Page 12
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