CALLS FOR HELP
STEAMER ON FIRE
DESTROYERS TO THE RESCUE
(Received March 9, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 8. The Admiralty states that an unknown steamer reports being fired on by an unknown warship in the Bay of Biscay and that four British destroyers are speeding to the rescue. A wireless operator at Cork picked up I three times an SOS message, the latest message stating "Fire aboard, sinking, come quickly."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 5, 9 March 1937, Page 9
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70CALLS FOR HELP Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 5, 9 March 1937, Page 9
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