STEAMER AGROUND
TUG GOING TO ASSISTANCE. (Rec. 12.5 a.m.) Colombo, September 22. The German steamer Iloclist, bound from Colombo to Europe, is aground off Minicoy Island. She is reported to be badly disabled. The tug Hercules has gone to attempt to refloat the merchantman. Minicoy is over 400 miles from Colombo and is a storm-swept spot in the path of the approaching nonh-east monsoon. —Australian Press Associotion.
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Southland Times, Issue 20886, 23 September 1929, Page 7
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