PERILS OF THE SEA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14703, 10 December 1909, Page 5

PERILS OF THE SEA.

LOSS OF THE LASEYNE.

A DREADFUL EXPERIENCE.

Press Asscciaf.ior._By Telosrapft-CopjmM PORT DARWIN, December 9 -Mails ore io hand of the collision bttwcsß tk, Briti.k India ]ißer ollga «"l Onaa) and the Menageries Uavi- }'-« wisoyno on |, ho 15tll Norembw j <■ ,H!no SlraiL Th ß disaster occurred ly in tl« , l; « Ilillg . Both g] - «el ligted. The French steamer went lo the bo;i :lm Jn kvs ihan Svo minai

Ino catastrophe was so sudden that ere ,var, „ 0 hmo (o m]m ne lrtn& ship .or to have the boats ! --<l. Sl«. wot dwa like, Ze ,UKI tho mtt Jonty of the pasMn-..™ and weir were drowned like ruts in a trap l'= rescued were picked up by tlle Ms that we, promptly p„t L l y ul og. Had thoy ml been picked up at th m ,„ent ,he y n,„, t hay, lnot Ifath rom the shark, or drownmcr. U«Ulming, who was one of the sailors wed. confirms the statement that a ro od »«n.r we.ro pulled <l mv „ bv sharks j v'r mn ? w «° "tout. Just as a Jiatay seaman was beimj draped into •, l*»t a d.»k .aized bis V*°The ™* brut, off w-itl, aboathook, Mid the Malay was say-d JrTft " ICmbei V of «» native

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