GRUESOME FIND
BODY IN A TRUNK. DISCOVERY ON FRENCH LINER. Rio de Janeiro, October 8. While the French liner Massillia was unloading baggage here the crew detected a suspicious odour from a trunk, and when the captain ordered it to be opened the body of a young man was discovered. The police have established that the trunk was shipped from Saopaulo to Santos and transhipped there on the Massillia. There are no marks of identification.—United Service. FISHERMEN DROWNED SHIPPING CAUGHT IN TYPHOON. (Rec. 7.5 p.m.) Tokio, October 10. Many hundreds of fishermen were drowned and severe casualties were suffered among coaslal shipping in a typhoon of which no warning was received. Several steamers wirelessed that they were in distress and cruisers and destroyers were despatched to their assistance. —Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20613, 11 October 1928, Page 7
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