MISSION VESSEL CAPSIZED.
PASSENGERS AND CREW
ESCAPE.
(MEAT PRIVATIONS ENDURED.
Received August 24, ,10.50 p.m SYDNEY, August 24
Advices received from Carolina Island state that the American Mission vessel Hiram Bingham capsized in a squill at Jaluit (chief town in the Marshall Islands, a group in the Western Pacific annexed by Germany in 1S85). '
Tne passengers and crew, numbering about 20, escaped in boats, and drifted for jnany days. They endured great privations, and eventually reached Ebon Island, in the Marshall Group, in a shocking condition. One of the passengers, Rev. Walkup, a well-known missionary, succumbed a few hours after landing. The others are recovering.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9577, 25 August 1909, Page 5
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105MISSION VESSEL CAPSIZED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9577, 25 August 1909, Page 5
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