Apia Hurricane
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Disaster of 50 Years Ago
From Our Own Correspondent
0 T Apia, Mar. 25.
N March 16, 1939, half a century had passed since the disastrous hurri cane swept Apia Harbour, in 1889, and caused the total loss of two German and two American warships, and dam age to one German and one American warship (which were beached) while 150 German and American sailors lost then lives. Only the British cruiser “Calliope” (Captain Kane, with a crew of 300) es caped to sea, through splendid seaman ship, without loss of life.
The fast-disappearing wreck of the German warship “Adler”, on the reef opposite the Catholic Cathedral, Apia, re mains as a memento mori, well-known to tourists and visitors to the island capital