MANCHESTER COMMERCE.
SURVIVOR'S STORY.
SUNK IN SEVEN MINUTES.
(Received October 30, 2 a.m.)
London*, October 29.
A survivor of the Manchester Commerce, which was sunk by a mine off the north of Ireland, states that the shock stunned everybody. The sea was rough, and the vessel sank in seven minutes. Thirty survivors, crowded into a boat, suffered severely from exposure for 21 hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15753, 30 October 1914, Page 8
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