SUNK IN BAY OF BISCAY
SURVIVORS I,AND AT SPANISH POUT. tty Tclfirapti-Prose Association—(lopyrfaht United Service Telegram. (Received .March 31, 12,10 a.m.) MADRID, .March 30. The purser, chief Engineer, third officer, four Red Cross nurses and forty-seven other survivors of a steamer sunk in the Hay of Biscay have arrived at Gijon. Eighteen were sent to 'hospital. AtJ». amt N.Z. Cable A*an. and Keutar, (Received March 31, 1.43 a.m.) LUX JOHN, .March 20. The Almwick Castle the day previously had rescued the ore tv of another torpedoed British ship. The passengers and crows of both vessels abandoned the Almwiok Oa-stlo in five boats ono of which landed on the (Spanish Coast with twenty-nine occupants (including ono stewardess and one child). Eight had died. The survivors aro .suffering from frostbite. Three other boats were picked up During' the week. Ono contained twenty-seven, another twenty-nine, ami tiio third twenty survivors and five corpses. Tho remaining boat is not accountm! for yet.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9623, 31 March 1917, Page 8
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158SUNK IN BAY OF BISCAY New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9623, 31 March 1917, Page 8
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