ISLANDERS’ PLIGHT.
INFLUENZA RAGING ON ST. VINCENT. WIRELESS BRINGS AID. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 17i. While the liner Andes was speeding from Pernambuco to Lisbon, an S.O.S. call, strong and insistent, rang out. Then came the message from Saint Vincent, a little West Indian island: “Influenza raging here. Medical supplies finished. Can help be sent immediately, please?’ ’ Saint Vincent is 170 miles' off the Andes’ route, but she immediately sent out the message: “We are coming to your aid.” Meanwhile a launch, packed with medical supplies and nourishing food, whs prepared, and when the Andes was a mile off the island, the launch was dropped overboard. There were cheers when boats were seen to leave the stricken island to pick up the necessities.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1927, Page 5
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