EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
STORY OF SINKING
(Received October 30, 1.5 p.m.)
LONDON, October 29,
An engineer off the liner Empress of Britain said that several bombs fell on the ship, the first killing a woman passenger. Some of the lifeboats were smashed but the others were lowered. One overturned and seven persons were lost. The remainder clung to the upturned boat for five and a half hours.
great activity. It seems almost as if the Italians hoped to get Egypt as they won their "victory" over France, with an assault launched at the very moment when the Germans achieved their hoped-for conquest of Britain, and that their plans have had to be reJaid,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1940, Page 8
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