ROUBAIX DROWNING.
SENSATIONAL SEQUEL. SUPPOSED DEAD BOYS SAFE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 1.5 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 10. There has been a sensational sequel to tho Roubaix beach drowning disaster. Five of the 18 children who were supposed to have been drowned have returned. When 13 bodies had been recovered tho search for tho fivo other children who were missing was continued all night long. Finally it was discovered that four boys had been rescued by the fifth boy, M.arcel Appincourt, aged 13, who had cooly punched the heads of the rest in order to quieten them. All five then becamo panic stricken and hid in the woods for the night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 13
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112ROUBAIX DROWNING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 13
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