FREIGHTER'S SOS
SHIPS RACING .TO HELP
HONOLULU, March 28.
Ships over a wide area in the NorthWestern Pacific are racing to the aid of a leaking and helpless freighter with a volunteer crew of 40, who are fighting a losing battle, 840 miles from Japan.
Messages from the vessel state that a severe storm is raging, and that there is eight feet of water in one hold which the pumps cannot control.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 73, 29 March 1937, Page 9
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72FREIGHTER'S SOS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 73, 29 March 1937, Page 9
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