Amid dense fog 50 miles off Victoria, B. C., the liner Niagara carrying wavy-haired Premier Joseph Aloysius ("Honest Joe") Lyons & wife home from King George's Silver Jubilee was in head-on collision last week with another British ship, the freighter King Egbert.
Bows of both vessels were badly stove in. The Premier and Mrs. Lyons, native-born Australians who have never before been overseas, stood nervously peering into the fog while the Niagara sent out an SOS.
After about an hour, the captains of both ships decided that they were leaking not too badly, limped into Victoria. Thence the Lyons sailed...
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