MISSING MAN RETURNS.
PRISONER IN TURKEY. LONDON, Dec. 20. Batchelor, a first-class stoker, who was believed to have been-drowned on the H.M.S. Cressy on. September 22, LOl4, lias returned to his homo at West Croydon. His appearance gave his pensioned mother such a shock that she became critically ill. Batchglor arrived in the neighbourhood nine weeks ago ,and collapsed in the street. Ho was treated at an infirmary, but was unable to give a connected" account of his wanderings. He now declares that a ship, believed to be Turkish, picked him up after the disaster. ■ Imprisoned in a castle, ho was compelled to work at odd jobs, and came across nobody able to speak English, until recently an official .put him aboard a steamer which landed him at Newcastle.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 904, 28 December 1923, Page 5
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