SINKING OF THE EGYPT.
FRENCH CAPTAIN’S STORY. #y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyri ht Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 21. The Seine rescued 242 survivors. Th* victims included seven women and two children. The commander of the Seine state* ho was steaming at five knots and suddenly saw the liner looming up through the fog. “ She crashed into ns and tore away the bow of my vessel,” he said. “ The Egypt then disappeared. T could not seo her and only heard the terrible cries ring through the dense log. T looked for th© other venssel and took twenty minutes to find her She was then lying on her side with a great hole in her plates. Th© air was full of lamentations and heaj-trending cries. I ordered all the lifebuoys to be thrown into the sea. lowered the boats and rescued all possible.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16740, 23 May 1922, Page 4
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