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SURVIVORS FROM DUTCH STEAMER FOUR DAYS IN OPEN BOAT. SHIP TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, February 28. When the captain of the British steamer Glenorchy sighted an apparently empty boat 80 miles from Spain and sounded the whistle as a precaution. the boat immediately became alive. It contained the captain, the chief engineer, and 11 members of the 8971ton Dutch steamer Den Haag, which was torpedoed without warning on February 15. The survivors were,-in the last stages of exhaustion after drifting for four days in rough seas. They had lain clown to die in the bottom of the boat. Twenty-six of the men of the Den Haag are missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1940, Page 5
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