DESPERATION OF DESPAIR
SCENE ON THE SINKING BRINDISI. HOPELESS MONTENEGRINS COMMIT SUICIDE. AMERICAN LADY’S STORY. (Received Feb. 4, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. Mr. Martin Donohue, "the “Daily Chronicle” correspondent, has obtained a sensational story from Miss Lamas, an American lady who is a survivor of the Italian steamer Brindisi, which wrts torpedoed in the Adriatic while conveying war stores to Montenegro, Miss Lamas says there were many Montenegrins aboard who vowed that if the vessel was t-orpedoed they preferred suicide to an ignominious death by drowning. They kept their word.
While the Brindisi was settling down scores of Montenegrins gathered aft and sang their National Anthem and shot themselves.
Miss Lamas jumped overboard, and after swimming about in the ice-cold water, reached a plank. Others did likewise till the plank became overloaded and submerged. There was a terrible fight to retain the coveted plank, but the others succumbed to the cokl, and Miss Lamas, who was wearing a heavy overcoat, was alono when rescued.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4156, 5 February 1916, Page 5
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