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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1917
Page
3
Hollis and McCann rescue a mysterious woman from a sinking liner after a collision with a tramp steamer. Amid wreckage and a dying ship, they fight through water and timbers to reach Vera and escape in a small boat as the other survivors flee into the night.
The narrator lowers a lantern and enters a flooded area to reach Vera. He fights the door latch as water rises to her waist, calls for help, and improvises a bypass since keys are unavailable. He identifies the door and presses on to reach her in time.
Two men and their charge flee the sinking yacht in a small boat but face further troubles as they row away.
A J Balfour head of the British commission told a poignant tale at a New York reception about a peer wounded at Mons. The peer lingered, foreseeing mortals wounds, and Balfour recalled meeting him in Piccadilly on crutches, the shadow of his former self. He joked on moving slowly yet claiming to move very fast.
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