ANOTHER CALL FOR AID
CRUISER TURNS BACK
WHEN 300 MILES AWAY
"REGULAR RADIO THRILLER"
United Press Association—By Electric Teleeraph—Copyright. (Received February 12, 11 a.m.)% SYDNEY, This Day.' f, wireless message received from H.M.A.S. Australia at sea says- ' After we left the Seth Parker on Sunday afternoon, when she said that everything was well, we picked up _ her broadcast to American stations. It was a regular radio thriller. The announcer was full of 'the big grey battleship looming from the mists' and descriptions of South Sea storms. "Then when we were about three hundred miles away from the Seth again on Monday afternoon she sent out a distress signal. Going back means that we may. arrive late at Panama. We are now rolling fairly heavily and expect worse before reaching the Seth." An earlier message, received', at Sydney from the Australia, said tt,ot the cruiser was again rushing fej -.%£ aid of the Seth Parker, which v*ss saia Ito be leaking badly. The cruiser hoped to reach her on the afternoon of the neli •£. ? added: "Everything was well with her when we left her yesterday." • *
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Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 9
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183ANOTHER CALL FOR AID Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 9
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