550 PEOPLE DEAD
RUSSIAN STEAMER SUNK (United Press Assn.—oec. Tel. copyrumt; NEW YORK, Dec. 13 Five hundred and fifty people are known to be dead and 402 were saved as the result of the sinking of the Russian passenger steamer Indigirka, of 2336 tons, of Hokkaido, says the Tokio correspondent of the Associated Press of America. The ship grounded on an islet off Wakkanai in a gale. The impact shattered the engines and ripped open the hull. The Japanese ship Karafuto Maru, of 5447 tons, rescued 390 of the passengers and crew. The Indigirka, formerly the Commercial Quaker, was sold by the United States to Russia in 1938.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20988, 15 December 1939, Page 8
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108550 PEOPLE DEAD Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20988, 15 December 1939, Page 8
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