Excursion Launch Swamped
SEVENTY BODIES RECOVERED. INQUIRY INTO OVERCROWDING United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, July 14. It is feared that a hundred lives wero lost in the capsize on tho Volga of a launch conveying workers and their families, numbering 250 individuals, on an excursion. Seventy bodies were recovered. The Soviet has ordered a trial of union organisers for allegedly permitting overcrowding of tho launch.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7210, 17 July 1933, Page 7
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