HEROIC WOMEN.
EXIST ON A RAFT.
BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
(Received Dec. 15, 1.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Dec. 14. The survivors of the Cigale, which was wrecked, have reached Mauritius. A priest on the doomed vessel pronounced the benediction. The women were marvellously heroic and knelt with rosaries in tlieir hands oil a raft surrounded by sharks. A tin of sardines was the only food they had for three days.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 December 1924, Page 9
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68HEROIC WOMEN. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 December 1924, Page 9
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