STORM IN ATLANTIC
AMERICAN LINER BUFFETED SEVENTY-THREE ON BOARD INJURED. TWENTY-THREE SERIOUSLY HURT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Daq( 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. October 18. The liner President Harding has radioed that 73 passengers and members of the crew have been injured, 23 seriously and one is believed to have been lost in a storm. A coastguard vessel has made contact with the liner 800 miles off Boston. The sea is so rough that medical supplies have been presumably transfered by a line. The President Harding declared that further assistance was not needed and that she was proceeding to New York. ANOTHER MISHAP SHIP LOSES RUDDER CHAINS. ASSISTANCE BY COASTGUARD VESSEL. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 18. The Blairbeg radioed that she had lost her rudder chains. British and United States steamers sent messages stating that they were going to the rescue. The distance was then 12 to 16 hours' steaming. A later message stated that • the Blairbeg had radioed that further assistance was not needed and presumably after rendering assistance, resumed her neutrality patrol, to which she had been assigned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 8
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188STORM IN ATLANTIC Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 8
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