20 DROWNED IN CHANNEL
(Rec. 11 p.m.) PARIS, August 16. The bodies of 20 holidaymakers were recovered from the Channel last night after a motorboat hit a rqck and sank off the isle of Brehat yesterday. The launch, tilled with summer visitors, was making a trip round the island, off the coast of Brittany.
The search for Other victims is continuing.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27739, 17 August 1955, Page 11
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