LOSS OF THE PROVENCE
A SURVIVOR'S STORY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. March 7, 11.50 p.m.) Paris, March 7. M. Bokanowski, a French deputy, and a survivor of the auxiliary cruiser Provence disaster, says that a battalion of . the Third Colonial Infantry was aboard. There was no lamentation or panic, through tho step was sinking rapidly, and the boilers exploding. Captain Vesco remained on the bridge calmly giving his orders, and finally cried "Adieu, mes onfants." The men who were clustered on the foredeck replied "Vive la France"; then tho Provence gave a sudden plunge. A British patrol boat and a French torpedoer picked up t.Jio survivors after they had been 18 hours in the water. Many died, and some went mad beforo the rescuers arrived.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19160308.2.25.8
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
125LOSS OF THE PROVENCE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in