PEOPLE WHO SAW THE WARATAH SINK.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 300, 9 December 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

PEOPLE WHO SAW THE WARATAH SINK.

OFF EAST AFRIGAN COAST. STARTLING STORY. rbo following letter, over the signature cl "11 i-:it:i( r Grey,” appeared recently in an East London (South Africa) paper:—-"J have just returned from a delightful holiday spent with friends >n the 'I ranskei coast, about 120 miles from East London. Whilst there 1 learnt that a few months after the dis-.ipp’-aram o of the War.-.tah the frame "f a 'li el: chair nnd a fruit bn-kcc-with a border of the colour known ti l:.'>v-> I ecu ift!- ! (i .i t! :( . i’d-fated vers, I wer.-- wri'-’i- -I up on 1 •> the bench whr--' v •'Jwfti. d. I have negotiated for the ■ A young Scotsmin, who is still living in that pari of the country was. d the time the Waratah ili.ftippearod for ftvm- time wnfr-’ung a vessel laLo-tr-ing in hi avy s.-.-.s, nnd pitching an l rolbno most tcrriLF.-. Ho remarked: I sho :M not. ]!’::' to be on board th ir I i>w‘ no” ” She • :r! ). n’v <]X-nppi'-ari-d. Maria, the woman who not'a-" e . for me iricnds when they visit their ft-ftftdo homo. a’<o .ivcrml r I fhaf iium thnt I'm- n long time rim wato’-.rj a shin struggling against a tf-ft-c.ln f. : she v .-;,s frightened, and It< a ■e.-n-ly biok-ont. v.|-. n the ship rem.lon! .• di- ■: p.no-i red from Th‘e -: ia.-v *.f a n-'tive t-irr not fie i--oi-ft i’ i ’U< ■ t vuT r< I]f* ’ »h', I>ii v \v b r.t ill ‘on t i ?■.■>■*+> tn n r T’ ! ’!<■ r v iho eh'i i u tru I’;*;, .-i’t-'i (Ito '-n ? Tho i'lcn tha: the;.- luith In'V.invu:.I to th l '* hanloss veu."'•l obtains ;c. id u;tl or-;b-nr-.-‘ nimncr i hvinp al'in;; orit y,?r' of fbo OF.VT. If t’o-: hypoi. bii< i~ bo CO-T'O'-E. t’Vfti it to bo f rj')p';-tI thnt the ?llrortnno'l V+ nmJali is frdh.oms IrI t’/' vt'F F th’ Indian Ocean s Tir.ewbcrc- near this soot.”