“MUST HAVE COURAGE”
.. —<C**~ ADVICE OF DUCHESS widows of tiietis men EAXGASIHEG MEET INC ( Klee. Tel. Copyright—t’nilcd Press Assn.) (Reed. July 8, 3 p.m.) LONDON. July 7. ■‘You must .have courage," said the Duchess of Kent to Mrs. Eleanor Smith, one of the 40 Thetis widows, whom the Duke arranged that she should meet at the end of a Royal (our of Lancashire, reports the Daily Mail. Mrs. Smith carried her six-weeks-old baby. She .said that, the child was boni 10 days before the disaster. The Duke and Duchess of Kent talked sympathetically with the bereaved women for half an hour. An overnight gale damaged the Thetis salvage ship, which was forced to buoy the lifting wire and return to port for repairs. This morning's evidence at the inquiry was technical, dealing with earlier trials and the condition, of the equipment and machinery before sailing on the fatal voyage. The Mansion. House Thetis fund now stands at £84.000. including a gift of £277 from Chinese in Hongkong.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 10 July 1939, Page 7
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