TWO WARSHIPS SUNK?
LOSS OF RUSSIAN LIVES FEARED WRECKAGE WASHED UP (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10 a.m. HELSINGFORS, Friday. A quantity of wreckage which was washed up on the Estonian coast is believed to have belonged to the Russian submarine Voikov and the destroyer Trotsky, which are feared to have sunk in the recent heavy storms. Their crews numbered over 100. APPALLING HORRORS 145 DEAD IN SUNKEN STEAMER MEN’S FRANTIC STRUGGLES (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) lIELINGFORS, Thursday. Divers found appalling horrors in the Lake steamer Kuru which was sunk on Sunday off Tammerfors, a town on the rapids between Lakes Nasiff and Pyhajarir. At first it was believede that 70 persons were drowned, but the divers discovered 145 victims, mostly women and children. These victims obviously had been trampled down by men in frantic struggles between decks when the vessel was sinking. Eighty bodies have been recovered. FIFTY-TWO LIVES LOST LAUNCH FOUNDERS OFF JAPAN COAST (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) TOKYO, Friday. A launch that was dispatched to search for fishermen who -were missing after a typhoon is reported to have foundered in the storm which sprang up again yesterday, while it ■was returning and was off Choshi. Fifty-trvo persons were lost. •
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 11
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207TWO WARSHIPS SUNK? Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 11
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