TWO HUNDRED SURVIVORS.
RESCUE WORK MADE DIFFICULT BY DARKNESS.
SIGNALS MISUNDERSTOOD BY TRAWLERS. (Received January 4, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 3. It is officially stated that the latest list shown 201 survivors. Survivors state that after a great explosion the fires were drawn and the men came on deck. Ihe vessel took n bonvv list to starboard and sank in 1 hour Had the weather beeu fnvourahio all ivould have been saved. Many plunged into the sea and were «1K uo by boats. Darkness made livn,.k P of rescue difficult. A nurnP T awlers misunderstood tho signals, otherwise more would have befeu Sa The Pxesa Bureau, jmbhshed* 4l«t .
thirty-nine officers who wero drowned, including Captains John Deed and Arthur Loxley and Commanders Charles Ballard, William Harrison and Henry Street. .
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16750, 4 January 1915, Page 7
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