THE LOST OTAKI
CASUALTIES (AMONG THE CREW. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, June 27. The Now Zealand Shipping Company • has received the following postcard from Mr. 11. M'Nish, late chief officer of the. Otaki, who is now a prisoner at Karlsruhe:—"! beg to state that tho Otaki was sunk s on March 10 by a German cruiser. I regret to state the following .. casualties-.--Captain Smith went down with' his ship, the chief steward (Mr. Willis) was drowned, and Kilner and - Martin / (apprentices) Kewston (seaman), ■ and A.' H. Little (third engineer) Vero •■. killed. Glitz, a trimmer, had a. leg amputated. Jackson, a seaman, Payne (ap-. prentice), Lancaster, Randall, and Groves'■ (firemen) were wounded, but not seriously, and several others were slightly wounded. All hands lost every, stitch they had except' what they stood up in. Please excuse postcard as it is all lam " allowed to write A
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3122, 28 June 1917, Page 4
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