PAPERS LOST AT SEA.
FOUND 12 WEEKS LATER.
- At a British Board Trade inquiry into the loss of the/British steamship Villareal Mr. Cunliffe, for the board, said that the ship's papers had "been reported to have been picked up at a fishing village on the River Elbe in Germany, arid they would vwy : likely be able to get them before the Court. i The ;, Chairman, Mr. J. RatclifFe Cousins: They will come as a voice from the dead. _. / In his evidence, the master of the Villareal, Captain Betts, said that when the ship sank in the North Sea on July 26 he was an hour in -the water and lost the ship's papers, which he had in. his pocket.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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119PAPERS LOST AT SEA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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