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TWO BOATS CAPSIZE.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN DROWNED
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Sept. 12.
The Soldier Prince, which went to the Hammonia's rescue, reports that two boats containing 30 women and children capsized, none escaping. Latjcr accounts demonstrate Mr ■Tubb's conspicuous gallantry. German women give him high praise. One said: "He helped us by being an Englishman. I don't know what we should have done without him. He saved the women and children.
Mr Jubb said that some Spanish woman tied four babies together and threw them into the sea, hoping they would be saved, but all were drowned. "When the Kinfauns Castle was sighted," he added, "I was so overjoyed that I started to sing Tippcrary.' Her crew were magnificent. No one was lost after her arrival." Mr Jubb is a foreman papermaker, and is a native .At Barr.Kje&. ,
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15041, 14 September 1922, Page 5
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