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THE SINKING OF THE VESTRIS. NEW YORK, November 18.—The, major part of the search has come'to an cm], with 132 to 1.35' persons still unaccounted, foiv Tho plan for the L ’S Angeles to aid ia the search.- was abandoned,when.tho Wyoming stated that it was unnecessary, for the coastguard would pick up the bodies. Admiral Taylor, of the- Wyoming, radioed the Navy Department early yesterday afternoon, stating that , eight lifeboats and one makeshift raft left the Vestria. One boat and the raft capsiv/fed’ fifteen minutes before the first rescue ship arrived. Some of the people wore picked up,—Australian Press Association; GENERAL BOOTH— SINKING FAST. LONDON, February 13.—General Booth is sinking fast.—Australian Press Association. , t OLD MAN MISSING. The officer in charge of the South Dunedin Police Station reports that an old inmate of, the Benevolent institution —Archibald Leetch, aged eighty-seven years—has been missing since November 12. Ho is pi : medium' build, .with grey hah’ and .beard*
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Evening Star, Issue 20023, 14 November 1928, Page 12
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