Interviewed after her rescue Sandiford, wife of a Trinidad paid a high tribute to the men of the Ex-Kaiser Expresses His Regrets to Queen Doorn, Nov. 20.
The ex-Kaiser today sent a message to Queen. Wilhelmina, expressing his sincere sympathy regarding the sinking of the Netherlands liner Simon Bolivar—Reuter, Navy on other ships which dashed to {the rescue of the Simon Bolivar.
Describing the scene on board. she said she was in her cabin, trying to some things for her daughter
curred. She staggered out, throw Jean, when errite, explosion ocdarkness to a passage filled with Steam, and managed to find her way the top deck, where she found her husband injured. He told her he was Itwiee thrown up into the air by the explosion. "A swift search revealed Jean who was dazed, and the three clambered into the same lifeboat.
The sun deck was awash when the [Chief Omer, Mr. Smit. left it.
In their Mfeboat was a Scottish' nurse, who, although her own back was injured, began in a businesslike manner to attend to the injuries of others and to make them comfortable.
'Mrs. Sandiford believed that a number of people forward and below must Ihave been trapped. "In the passage," she said, "I saw several crawling out Jof cabins. Some of them must have fbcen' stewards. T don't know how they could have escaped, becatise there was nobody down there to pull them out.
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