The tanker's rescue of the ten survivors climaxed ten hours of frantic struggling by the victims to remain afloat on the dark heavy seas and at the same time spend their waning strength shouting for assistance. Once the five men and five women survivors watched helplessly as a ship sailed by in the night without sighting them, despite shouted calls for assistance.
As the ships lights appeared, the survivors summoned all their remaining strength and shouted and screamed as loud as they could. Two men leter detached themselves from the gi and swam through the darkness toward the ship while the ship's spotlights streaked across the heavying surface of the seas without sighting them. The ship soon sailed away, leaving the ten survivors in despair. to approach the group the Esso Baytown which heard the victims' shouts for assistance and proceeded to effect a night rescue under the ship's strong spotlights.
The captain of the Esso Baytown sent a vivid description of the rescue today as his ship battled through the heavy seas in an attempt to reach Ne York ihis afternoon with the survivors, A report that the Palestine Arab delegates have decided not to go to London to attend the Palestine Conference has been denied by Dr. Hussein Khalidi, one of the delegates and former Mayor of Jerusalem, "We are starting for London on Tuesday," Dr. Khalidi, told Reuter "and we are hopeful of success."
Nuri Pasha as Said, Prime Minister of Iraq, accompanied by Jemal Hussein, left yesterday morning by air for Beirut, where he will endeavour to persuade the Mufti to agree to the British Government's desire that all Palestine parties, including the Opposition Party, should be represented at the London Conference, This desire was understood to have been stressed in a communication which was more in the nature of a request than a definite condition.
Nuri Pasha as Said will return to Cairo as quickly as possible in order to enable the delegates to leave for London on Tuesday, as it has been arranged.
The Palestine leaders, however, do not believe that the Iraqian Premier be able to persuade the Mufti to agree to the British request, since the Arab Higher Committee has already unanimously opposed the suggestion that the Opposition Parties should be represented at the London Conference,—Reuter.
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