London, Nov, 14 The engineer of @ trawler which picked "up six survivors made the Following statement 10° the. authori= ties "upon landing:
"Last night we heard a loud explosion, "At dawn we saw. a Hroyer' which seemed on the point of sinking. A" tugboat was near the warship surrounded. by' several Small "craft, We thought at the time that all the" survivors had been picked up, However, as we were "coming. nearer to. the other vessels we rescued a sailor, who! was completely exhausted and who said that he had been inthe water for over an hour, A fow minutes later we picked up five more survivors, four of whom were atate. We remained on' the scene for some time but aid not fla fny more survivors. Most of the Jaler "were taken on board the
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