NARROW ESCAPE
CABLE NEWS
(United Vress Association — By Electric Telegraph — Cupy right.)
OF ANOTHER DISASTER
AN ICEBERG AHEAD.
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
LONDON, AprO 28. A Maroonigrain has .been, received at Liverpool from the Canadian-Paci-fic Cfomroanv's steamer Empress of Britain '(14,*159 tons), stating that while she wia.s crossing the Grand Bank, 'Ncmft/iuidland, in. a dense fog, ■tad when 2-10 miles eastward from the position of the Titanic wreck, an ice-be-rg was scon ahead. The engines were reversed, and the ship swung off, .barely escaping the berg. As thoirto were hergs in all directions the vessel proceeded to Halifax instead of Montreal!.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10621, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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102NARROW ESCAPE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10621, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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