HEARTLESS HOAX.
WOMEN ROUSED FROM SLEEP. A cruel.hoax was perpetrated in Hull, early one morning in February, at the expenso of a number of sorrowing women. About 2 o'clock a well-dressed stranger aroused from their sleep the women dependants of the crew of the trawler Scapa Flow, which has been officially posted as abandoned, and informed them that the members of the crew were safe and were being sent back on a trawler to Hull. One of tho women was so overcome with joy that she fainted Pathetic scenes were witnessed later when the trawlers came in. Women and ! children scanned with eagerness the vessels as they arrived, but there was no news of the Scapa Flow, The owners state that they have no tidings concerning cither the men or Die ship.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18996, 18 April 1925, Page 2 (Supplement)
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