SINKING FREIGHTER
Ships Race to Rescue (Received March 29, 12.30 a.m.) Honolulu, March 28. Ships over a wide area in the NorthWestern Pacific are racing to the aid of a leaking ami helpless freighter with a volunteer crew of 40. who are losing a lighting battle 840 miles from Japan. S.O.S. messages state that a severe storm is paging, and that there is eight feet of -water in one hold, which the pumps cannot control.
AMERICAN VESSEL SINKS
Brisbane, March 26.
A message received by the sub-Col-lector of Customs at Townsville states that the American freighter Fijian, in which an explosion occurred, had sunk near Yuruto, a small island in the Marshall Group. The crew of 40 took to the boats and were picked up by the Shinko Mam.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 155, 29 March 1937, Page 9
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