Duncan displayed extraordinary pluck and bravery, according to sur-Vivors, who state that he swam about the sea cheering up the passengers. Finding one life-boat overcrowded, he requested some of the occupants to swim to a partially filled one lest all of them should be swamped. Then he continued.to swim around before he was picked up, rescuing men and women and pushing them out of the sea into boats.
Missing passengers of the Vestris include Major Yoshio Inouye, who was on his way to take up a post in the Japanese Corsulate at Buenos Aires—Madame Inouye is among. the survivors—and Earl Devore and Norman Batten, the well-known racing motorists. Devore had with him his favourite racer "Nickel Plate" with which he expected to win. several victories in motoring contests in South America The American battleship Wyoming has been ordered to. continue to search the scene of the wreck of the Vestris until. dark ard then to proceed to her base at Hampton The Captain's Last Trip London, Nov. 14.
Captain William Carey, who met his death in the disaster to the Vestris, was, 65 years of age and had been 30. years with—Messrs Lamport & Holt, the owners of the liner. He returned to America, after spending a holiday in Eng-and, on the eve of the sailing of the Vestris. This was to have been his last trip on the Vestris, which he would have left at Buenos Aires to assume command of Messrs.
Lamport & Holt's flagship Voltaire. Reuter.
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