DESTROYER SUNK
JAPANESE DISASTER OVER 100 MEN MISSING ONLY 14 SURVIVORS ONE DIES SUBSEQUENTLY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received December 0, 5.5 p.m.) TO KlO. Dec. C 'J he Japanese destroyer Sawarabi was proceeding from Ktire to Formosa when she sank in a violent storm ICO miles from her destination. Three other destroyers were in the vicinity, and they received the Sawarabi's distress signal, but owing to the darkness she was invisible. The companion vessels picked up 14 of the crew, one of whom subsequently died. Altogether 107 are missing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21359, 7 December 1932, Page 11
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