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PANIC AT SEA

TWELVE BELGIAN SEAMEN LOST DEPARTURE IN LIFEBOAT WHEN HALTED BY BRITISH PATROL SHIP. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9,3 a.m.) BOSTON, March 31. Her flag at half-mast and one lifeboat missing the Belgian freighter, Ville de Liege, reached Boston today with a tragic story of the death of 12 of the members of her crew. They mistook a British ship for- a German raider, launched a lifeboat and perished when their craft swamped. The survivors told how their vessel was halted in mid-Atlantic at 4 a.m. in darkness, last Monday by a warning shot from a British warship. A dozen of the crew became panicstricken, expecting further shots from the warship, which they thought was an enemy. They piled into a lifeboat, pulled away from the ship and were never seen again.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410401.2.31

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 5

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136

PANIC AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 5

PANIC AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 5

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