FISHING TRAGEDY
A GREAT LOSS FEARED. FOLLOWING A STORM. j ~ (United Press Association.-By Electric c- Telegraph—Copyright]. (Received this, day at 8.30 a.m.)PARIS September 23. It is believed one; of the greatest tragedies of the sea has overtaken five hundred Brittany fishing smacks*- of • ■which there, has been -no news since • a j storm;broke two days ago. , V.i ■
■ - . 'To-day the relatives are waitingf<?ar- % fully on ithe picturesque quays qf -the r little port of Concarneau, from which they observed .some of the abandoned smacks adrift. , • T'-'‘ Destroyers are searching for the missing fleets-"THUS'fav-thereis no news. , • ymany lives lost.: ; ■? ■; (Received thin day at 1.5 o.m.i LONDON, September 23. A message from .Concarnenn states many boats, fearfully battered, com tinue to return to port. There were pathetic scenes ns the whole population »can the crews for husbands or sons. Thus far. fifty .boats are still missing. Eighteen.; are known to be drowned from Concarnean and thirty from Lurient, but -it is . feared that the total will be much greater. ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1930, Page 5
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