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Show TIIKKK 11IK AT SKA NEW YORK, .N'ov. 17 --Tl)- gale-swept North Atlantic took a toll of three lives today on a small British freighter in mid-ocean, mid-ocean, while about 100 miles away another vessel flashed a call for ' aid. A message from the freighter Tweedbank, intercepted reported the captain had been killed and two men had been washed overboard over-board by heavy seas. The vessel's radio operator sa'd the ship was hove to in a heavy gale and he was marooned in his wireless room by the battering high-breaking waves. |