TRAGEDY ON SHIP

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 724, 27 December 1933, Page 3

TRAGEDY ON SHIP

MOTHER LOST OVERBOARD WHEN ON TRIP TO i FRANCE BABY ORPHANED Southampton, Nov. 19. j A vain search for a woman passenger in a liner in mid-Atlantic, while her 18-months-old daughter was playing happily in the ship's nursery, was described when the Canadian Pacfiic liner Montrose arrived here. i The woman, Mrs. Madeleine Buxton was found to be missing tvhen the Montrose was four days out from Montreal, and she was presumed to have been lost overboard. Mrs. Buxton, a Frenchwoman by ' birth, was a naturalised British sub- | ject, and lived with her husband in Ottawa. i She was crossing to Havre with her little girl Frances to visit rela- j tives in France. | i A wireless message was sent from the ship to her husband who asked that the baby might be sent back to Canada by the first available ship. In view of this Frances was not landed at Havre, where her relatives were waiting, but was brought on to Southampton, and left in the ship for Liverpool. Later she was to he transferred to the Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Richmond, and in the charge of a stewardess make the return crossing to Canada. Mrs. Buxton was a cabin-class passengerandwasverypopula^^the