COPRA CARGO AFIRE
ISLAND STEAMER MORINDA SCUTTLED IN SYDNEY HARBOR. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, August 28. An island trader has arrived with her copra cargo on fire. The fire is still burning furiously, and the brigades efforts are unavailing. It is feared that the vessel is doomed. August 29. (Received August 29, at 10.25 a.m.) After unavailing efforts to extinguish the fire aboard the Burns-Philp Company's steartier Morinda, the vessel was flooded, and sank. The fire was first noticed when the vessel was leaving Brisbane, and it was thought it had been extinguished, but when the Morinda was within a few miles of Sydney it broke out again. —. :
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Evening Star, Issue 16515, 29 August 1917, Page 6
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113COPRA CARGO AFIRE Evening Star, Issue 16515, 29 August 1917, Page 6
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