DROWNING OF 22 CHILDREN
MOTOR-BOAT STRIKES ICE FLOE IN DANUBE (Received January 24. 10 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. The Bucharest correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says a motor-boat containing 22 children, aged from seven to nine, who were on an excursion, accompanied by their headmaster, struck an ice floe in the Iron Gates, where the Danube races between towering cliffs. Desperate fathers and mothers leaped into the icy water in an attempt to save the children, necessitating boats putting off to rescue them. All the parents were rescued but the motor-boatman alone survived of the excursionists.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22309, 25 January 1938, Page 9
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