BOMBED AND SUNK
RED CROSS SHIP BOUND FOR GREECE. HARROWING STORY TOLD Bi” SOLE SURVIVOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LISBON, February 12, A Portuguese sailor is the sole survivor of a Swiss food ship which was chartered for Red Cross relief and was heavily bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean when en route to Greece. The sailor, who has arrived in Lisbon, spent 18 days on a raft, watching nine others of the crew die. The water ration was one tablespoonful a day. The captain was the first to die.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1943, Page 3
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89BOMBED AND SUNK Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1943, Page 3
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