LOSS OF THE LACONIA
Further Particulars
(Australian & N X, Cable Association).
(Received Feb 28, at 8.45 a.m,) London, Feb 27
Tbs Duly Chronicle’s Queenstown correspondent slates the JL*con : a was torpedoed without warning on Sunday eight. It was comparatively calm.
After a second torpedo the vessel listed and the boats were launched with d.ffiruJ ;.y.
Ti ers was no panic. The small los-i of life was <iu ; to ihe excellant
discipline Besides two Anioticjn women believed to bt drown?d, four ether Americans were rescued, sf er terrible exoe-ienccs in lbs boat-.
Astermer hr r.ging CO7 survivors arrived »t Quecis'otv , ‘.-sviog picked up from eight bo.< s.
Some of the survivors nay there were twenty-two rbo vr. d ; others that only ten were 10-it.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1917, Page 2
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