HEROIC CHILDREN.
RESCUE AT SEA. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 1.15 p.m.) llUGBtf. Sept. 26. Forty-six more survivors of the City of Benares, the evacuee ship torpedoed in the Atlantic last week, were landed at a British port to-night. They spent eight days in a lifeboat before sighted and picked up. Six more children were among those saved, leaving the number of child victims of ;the torpedoing at 79. The survivors paid a tribute to the heroism of the children during the anxious days of exposure at sea. Two Sunderland flying-boats, one ot which is an Australian, found the survivors in a drifting boat 600 miles from land. The Australian craft had just returned from convoy duty when it found the lifeboat. The Australian captain flew to the convoy and asked the captain bf the R.A.F. Sunderland which had taken over from him to ensure the survivors were rescued. •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 257, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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148HEROIC CHILDREN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 257, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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