ALARMING CALLS FROM AMERICAN SHIP
GIBRALTAR, Feb. 19. A series of frantic garbled messages, one of which said, “They are trying to kill me,” flashed across the Atlantic today from the American Liberty ship ■William Phips, and sent a United States destroyer hurrying out from Gibraltar in search of the ship. The ship had passed through the Straits of Gibraltar early this morning bound for Galveston, Texas, from Naples and the signals from her suggested that there might be mutiny aboard'. They said: “Got Pierce, radio operator . . . locked in radio . . . trying to kill me . . . help . • . smoking me out . . Please get a bearing. Latei in the day, however, the Wi - liam Phips put into Gibraltar and landed the radio operator, who was taken to hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22877, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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