SINKING OF THE PROVENCE.
A SURVIVOR'S STORY
PARIS, March 7. M. Bokanowski, a French deputy, a survivor from the Provence, narrates that a battalion of the Third Colonial Infantry was on board. There was no lamentation or panic. Though the ship was sinking rapidly and 'the boilers exploding Captain Vesco remained on the bridge, calmly giving order. Finally he cried, "Adieu, mes enfants." The men clustered on the foredeek and replied, "Vive La France!" Then the Provence took a sudden
plunge. A British patrol ship and a French torpfdoer picked up the survivors after they bad been 18 hours: in the water. Many died and others' went mad before the rescuers arrived. .
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Nelson Evening Mail, 8 March 1916, Page 5
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