Through a smashing Atlantic gale 600 miles off the British coast ploughed the City of Benares one night last week, bound under convoy for Canada. Below decks 90 children evacuated from the heavily bombed slum sections of London were asleep in their bunks. Other passengers were playing bridge in the lounge, chatting in the ship's bar. It was just 10 o'clock.
With a shattering roar an explosion forward of the engine room threw the vessel violently on its beams, next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room. In an instant the whole ship was a hell of fire and...
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