WRECKS IN THE ISLANDS.
«Jg» - !?3D!RE!OT RESULT OF THE WAR. [\':,rr?v F'BE?a AsstfOiAiioK. 1 Sydney, September 9. The Ifrench steamer Pacitique, from Noumea, brought crows, numbering forty-two, of the British barquontino Titauia, and the Russian barque Aland, wrecked on the coast of New Caledonia last month. The disasters wero the result of the authorities extinguishing the lighthou;■_ ■; on the coa it owing to the war. The Titauia, while at Surprise Island, lost v. topmast yard, and was running for Noumea to repair it when she stranded on a coral reel in thedarkness. The Aland struck the Zeol:u::ibi reef, in trying to make harbor at Tohio in the early morning. Both vessels became total wrecks, but all aboard escaped.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 20, 10 September 1914, Page 8
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118WRECKS IN THE ISLANDS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 20, 10 September 1914, Page 8
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