SEA DISASTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1920, Page 5

SEA DISASTERS.

VESSEL STRIKES A MINE. SEVEN HUNDRED REPORTED LOST. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 13, 9.20 p.m. Paris, Jan. 10. There were seven hundred on board the steamer Princess Mafalda, bound from the Argentine to Genoa. An Unconfirmed report states the vessel was mined and lost with all hands.— Aus.-N.2. Cable Assn. SHIP WRECKED IN A GALE. MANY SAILORS DROWNED. Received Jan. 13, 2.25 p.m. London, Jan. 10. Wild weather continues around the coast. The Treaval, a four thousand ton cargo steamer from Calcutta, stranded in a ! gale off Weymouth, and broke up. Seven I of the crew, in lifebelts, were cast ashore exhausted. '"'l twenty corpses were stranded." 1S believed thirteen others were drowneu.—United Service. Received Jan. 14, 12.10 a.m. London, Jan. 11. Thirty-three out of forty of the crew of the steamer Treaval, which was wrecked at Kimmeridge, were drowned. =—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. PASSENGER STEAMER LOST. OVER FOUR HUNDRED DROWNED. Received Jan. 14, 1.55 a.m. London, Jan. 13. The steamer Afrique, bound to West Africa from France, was damaged in a gale, and when returning to port was sunk in a raging sea. Twenty-six survivors were saved with difficulty. Reuter states that the AfriqUe was totally wrecked off La Rochelle, and only 2(5 of 405 passengers were saved.