... THE LANCASTRIA Colwyn Bay Man's Ordeal , Now that the story of the loss of the Lancastria has been told we are able to ! publish a statement which was made to a Weekhi News reporter by a Colwyn Bay man who was a survivor. He is Private , H. G. Griffiths ...

... THE LANCASTRIA. NEW YORK, Today. Boats and rafts were machine-gunned by German ’planes which bombed and sank the Cunard White Star liner Lancastria off Brest, according to a report in the New York Sun. The Lancastria, 16,243 tons, was carrying 6,000 people ...

... Captain Sharp was the last man aboard as the Lancastria began to sink. He was struggling in the water when Dr. Shaw, who is a strong swimmer, dived from a boat and rescued him.—B.U.P. FAMOUS CRUISE LINER The Lancastria, formerly the Tyrrhenia and registered ...

... LANCASTRIA MR.. DUFF COOPER, Minister of Information, yesterday in the House of Commons gave the country his reasons for withholding the news of the bombing and sinking of thy: Lancastria. Mr. Cooper was in an apologetic and fumbling state of mind. And ...

... The liner in which I was having breakfast was the Lancastria. The Arandora Star was sunk U-boat early this month while carrying German and Italian internees from Britain to Canada, and the Lancastria is now reported to have been bombed and sunk by German ...

... ON THE LANCASTRIA Among those saved when the Lancastria was torpedoed of St. Nazaire France, was: Pte. Bill King, 21, the Buffs, whose wife and 11-months-old son Billy live at Staple. near Canterbury. Pte. King cannot swim, nor had he a lifebelt. After ...

... The Lancastria It is possible that in his statement yesterday about the sinking of the Lancastria Mr. Duf! Cooper was giving the view* not of the Ministry of Information but of another department. It was in any case singularly unconvincing. It may be ...

... IN LANCASTRIA. Corporal F. C. Berry, of the I RA.F.. elder son of Mrs. Berry, of 3. South Street. Valley Road,. Shipley, is now home on sick leave. He was on board the Lancastria when it was struck by a bomb. Although a non-swimmer. 11(.1 succeeded ...

... LANCASTRIA; HOW THEY II OW 9(10 survivors of the j from the trawler liner Lancastrla. sunk rescued thern^ Nazi bombs off St. j the 5.300 troops and on June 17. were saved. refugees board the Lan- Seantilv clad, they are 1 eastria. 2,500 are known seen ...

... Lancastria Wedding THE bridegroom and most of the guests at an Aberdeen wedd:ng yesterday were survivors from the Lancastria, sunk during the evacuation from France. Bridegroom was Major H. L. Seymour-Thomas. and the bride was Sister Ruth Dyke, of South ...

... LANCASTRIA ORDEAL Two Darlington soldiers were survivors from the Lancastria, sunk by enemy action during the evacuation of the B.E.F. from France. They were Lance-Corporal R. Fawcett, of Danesmoor Crescent, Darlington, and Corporal Maurice Nixon, son ...

... NEWS OF THE LANCASTRIA Why Did America Have It First? Mr. E. L. Granville (L., Nat., Eye, Suffolk) will ask the Minister of Information on Wednesday, why the news of the bombing and sinking of the Lancastria, and the story of the heroism of the British ...