POIGNANT SCENES
WRECK OF AIR LINER
IDENTIFYING VICTIMS
(Received March 30, 3 p.m.)
LONDON, March 29. Poignant scenes are reported from1 Dixmude, ■ Vhcre the .British air liner City of Liverpool was wrecked. . A couple in each other's arms were identified as Mr.' and Mrs. Dlbbin, owing to a cheque-book in Mr. Dibbiu's pocket.
One of the most pathetic incidents was the arrival of a party of blackcostumed, German ladies who were relatives of the schoolgirl, Miss Voss. They eagerly sought' souvenirs of the loved one, rejecting one object after another taken from the wreckage, when it was handed them: for identification.
The young wife of Eugene Krieglinger, a well-known Antwerp financier, insisted on coming to Dixmude' to identify her husband's'body, but her courage failed at the last moment arid she motored away.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 12
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