Joe's SOS

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 to Seattle where they boarded a special train for San Francisco to catch the fast Matson Liner Mariposa for Australia. Said genial Premier Lyons to Seattle reporters, "I wish you could meet my wife, but she's asleep. She was rather knocked out, you know, by the steamer collision. She'd been up early in the morning to see the scenery, hoping to have a good sleep that night, and that's the kind of a bally night she had. There wasn't really an awful lot to the collision, though. We are most anxious to get home to see our kiddies. We have eleven, you know."

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