FOUR HUNDRED MISSING,
FRENCH LINER WRECKED.
STRIKES ROCK AND FOUNDERS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 15, 10.5 a.m-) LONDON, January 12. Tho French steamer Afrique, 5-104 tons, hound to West- - Africa from France, was damaged in a gale, and when returning to port was sunk in a raging sea. ” Tho Times” states that the steamer Ceylon lauded a considerable number of the Afriquo’s passengers and crow. HOPE FOR SURVIVORS. (Received January 15, 10.5 a.m.) BARIS, January 13. The liner Afrique was damaged during a gale in tho Bay of Biscay, and was returning to port, when she'struck a rock and sank.
Four hundred people arc missing, but it is hoped that a. number will ho rescued from boats and rafts. (The Afrique was a steel twin-screw steamer of 5404 tons, built in 1907 at Newcastle, and owned by the Chargours Reunis, Havre.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19846, 15 January 1920, Page 5
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