SANTA ANNA SAFE.
DYNAMITE AND FUSES FOUND. LOXDOX. September 19. The steamer Santa Anna has arrived nt the Azores. It transpires that 18 dynaviite cartridges nnd fuses were found on board capable of causing many e.xplosions. PLENTY OF HELP. (Received 5.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, September 19. Tlie captain of the Santa Anna attributes the fire that broke out to German propagandists. Many exploded and unexpended ruses were also found on the ship. One thousand one hundred and ninety-six passengers, including 005 women and children ami aged people, were transferred to the steamer Ancona, the first of nine steamers to answer the wireless call. If thefe had been munitions aboard the vessel would have been blown to pieces. The Santa Anna, which is conveying 1.000 Italian reservists from the United States to Italy, was last week reported to be on fire in mid-Atlantic. It was thought that there had been an attempt to blow the vesel up.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 224, 20 September 1915, Page 6
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