STEAMER MINED.
DISASTER OFF CAPE TOW ft. TWENTY LIVES LOST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received August. 14, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 13. The State Department announces that fifteen passengers and fire of the crew were lost when the American steamer City of Athens sank after striking a mine off Cape Town. Those lost included four missionaries and an Englishman named Nuckworth, with his wife and six children.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12085, 14 August 1917, Page 5
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