FRENCH STEAMER FOUNDERS.
101 LIVES LOST
United Press Association —Copyright (Received November 15, 9.10 p’.m.) SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. The Messageries , Maritimes’ steamer , Laaseyre foundered in Ithio Straits, two minutes after colliding with the :British-India liner Onda. The latter rescued and landed 61 persons at Singapore, many of them badly mauled by sharks. • Seven of the Laaseyre’s European passengers, fifty Asiatic passenger*, the captain, five officers, and ,3S °f * e Asiatic crew were-drowned. ; • TRhio Strait is between the island of Bintang and a smaller island in the Dutch, East Indies, soiith of the Malay Peninsula.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2660, 16 November 1909, Page 5
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94FRENCH STEAMER FOUNDERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2660, 16 November 1909, Page 5
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