ON THE SEA.
TRAGEDY OF THE PROVENCE. HEROIC DISCIPLLvu. SUFFERINGS OF SURVIVORS. Received March 7, ll.ou Paris, Marcli 7. M. Bokanowski, a French Deputy, who v.'as a survivor from the Provence disaster, narrates that a battalion of the Third Colonial Infantry were aboard. There was no lamentation or panic, though the ship was sinking rapidly and the boilers were exploding. Captain Veseo remained on the bridge, calmly giving orders, and finally cried, "Adieu, Mes Enfants!" The men clustered on the fore deck and replied, "Vive la France!" Then the Provence took a sudden and final plunge. A British patrol and a French torpedoer picked up the jurvivors after they had been eighteen hours in the water. Many died or went mad before the rescuers arrived. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK, Received March s. 10.15 p.m. London, March (!. The Glasgow steamer Masunda has been sunk. All the crew were saved.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1916, Page 5
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147ON THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1916, Page 5
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