79 CHILD VICTIMS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21229, 27 September 1940, Page 8

79 CHILD VICTIMS

TORPEDOING OF STEAMER SURVIVORS ARRIVE IN BRITAIN (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 27, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 26 Forty-six more survivors of the City of Benares, the evacuee ship which was torpedoed in the Atlantic last week, were landed at a British port tonight. They spent eight days in a lifeboat before they were sighted and picked up. Six more children were among those saved, leaving the number of child victims of the torpedoing at The survivors paid tribute to the heroism of the children during the anxious days of exposure at sea. Found by Flying-boat Two Sunderland flying-boats, of which one was an Australian, found 46 survivors, including children, drifting in a boat from the City of Benares. A warship later picked up the survivors, who were 600 miles from land. The Australian Sunderland had just been relieved from convoy duty when it found the lifeboat. The Australian captain flew to the convoy and asked the captain of the Royal Air Force Sunderland which had taken over from him to ensure that the survivors were rescued.