A WIRELESS CALL
OPERATOR IN FEAR
DESTROYER TO RESCUE
British Official Wireless.
RUGBY, 22nd November.
The British naval authorities in the Mediterranean picked up a wireless message from the steamer Baron Elcho, stating that the wireless operator was in danger of being drugged or murdered, and.asking for immediately assistance. The position of the steamer was not given, but it is known that she was on a voyage from the Dutch East Indies, and left Port Said for Marseilles on "Wednesday, steaming Qi knots. Immediately on receiving the call for help the Conimander-inOhief of the Mediterranean Fleet, Admiral Sir Frederick Field, dispatched four destroyers—the Witch, Wren, Worcester, .and Whitehall—to search for the vessel ana investigate the reasons for the message.
The Baron. Elcho is a steamship of 4286 tons, owned by Messrs. Hogarth and Sons, of Glasgow, and is manned by 15 Europeans and 40 Lascars.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 9
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A WIRELESS CALL
Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 9
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