CRUISER SINKS
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^naval disaster ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED JAPANESE, LOSS
-By Telegraph— Copyrlght)
Tokio, December 6. The cruiser Swarabi while proceeding from Kure to Formosa is reported to have sunk in a violent storm 100 miles from its destination. Over 100 were drowned. * Three other destroyers were in the vicipity when they received the Swarabi's distress signal, but owing to darkness, she was invisible to her companions. They picked up 14 sur-viv-ors, but one suhsequently died. One hundred and seven are missing.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 December 1932, Page 5
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88CRUISER SINKS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 December 1932, Page 5
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