RIVER TRAGEDY
OVERLOADED BOAT CAPSIZED.
TWENTY-EIGHT GIRLS MISSING HEROIC NATIVE .RESCUER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received 10.45 a.m. to-day. CAIRO, Nov. 9. An overloaded felucia ferrying girl flower pickers across the. river near the wireless station at Abuzabal, capsized. Twenty-eight are missing. A native employed at the station, rescued nine and then collapsed and died.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 November 1928, Page 5
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62RIVER TRAGEDY Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 November 1928, Page 5
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