"SHIP AFIRE: COME QUICKLY"
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Terse Message From Shelled Steamer RUSH TO THE RESCUE
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(Received 9, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. The Admiralty states that an unknown steamer reports being fired on by an unknown -warsMp in the Bay of Biscay. Four British destroyers are speeding thither. A wireless operator at Cork picked up three S.O.S. signals, the latest message stating: "Fire aboard; sinking; come quickly."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 45, 9 March 1937, Page 5
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70"SHIP AFIRE: COME QUICKLY" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 45, 9 March 1937, Page 5
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