ALL HANDS LOST
CAPSIZE IN HEAVY SEAS
JAPANESE TORPEDO BOAT
A FORMER DISASTER
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 13, noon.) TOKIO, March 12. Sasebo' reports that the torpedo-boat Tomozuru capsized in thick fog in manoeuvres near the Goto Islands, off Nagasaki. • The destroyer Tatsuta was towing the Tomozuru to Sasebo when the vessel capsized owing to very heavy seas. Aeroplanes searched for survivors in yam. The whole ship's company of 106 is given up for lost. The Tomozuru was one of the newest torpedo-boats, a 527 tonner. It is recalled that a very similar tragedy occurred when the dostroyer Sawarabi sank in Formosa Strait on December 5, 1932, when 104 were drowned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 7
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114ALL HANDS LOST Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 7
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