London, Jan. 17.
Colonel Lord Montagu f Beaulieu is in Panis, He is suffering from lack of sleep and pain from his wounds, but is progressing favourably. He said that during his last twenty-four hours in the sea he thought that it was all over with him. He suffered greatly from thirst. Lord Montagu owed his life to the fact that ho was wearing an inflatable waist-coat for he kept slipping off the wreckage to which he was clinging and only the waist-coat kept him afloat.
After b's arrival at Malta Lord Montagu received a message of congratulation from the King on his escape.
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