ECHO OF THE WARATAH.
SOLDIER STATES ONLY SUR-
VIVOR.
AN ACCOUNT OF ADVENTURES.
PROMISED HIS PARENTS.
United Press Association. (Received 2 p.m.) London. August 17. Leinster newspapers say that in. iesponse to a "missing friends” advertisement, a soldier named ,-uauutou has written home from I l 'ranee and declares he is the sole survivor of tlm Waiatali. He promises Ins parents a full account of hi s adventures later.
The Warn tali sailed from Australia to Durban several yea") ago. but did not reach her pent. Search steamers failed to find the slightest trace of the ship or wreckage. Sensational stories were current of a ship having been sighted hy another steamer whose.passengers related that they saw the lights of a steamer suddenly disappear. Other equally alarming stones and theories of the vessel capsizing and foundering were circulated, hut nothing definite or authentic was established.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 91, 18 August 1915, Page 6
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145ECHO OF THE WARATAH. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 91, 18 August 1915, Page 6
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