WRECKED CUBA
LOOTERS AT WORK. ' POLICE WARNED OFF. Press Association—By Telegraph—CopyrxjSV NEW YORK, September 28. (Received September 29, at 9.20 a.m.) Lloyds, as the representatives of ths underwriters of the wrecked steamer Cuba, has asked protection from the looters of the abandoned vessel, which lies partly suomerged thirty-five miles from Los Angeles. Last week sixteen armed men boarded her and looted the radio outfit and other movable articles and cargo valued at £30,000. Police boats visited the wreck, but they were warned off, the looters threatening to shoot, claiming that they were in possession under the derelict law. Tho police, being uncertain of their authority, withdrew.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Gable. [The Pacific mail liner Cuba grounded on a reef at San Miguel Island on September 9, and became a total loss. It was in going to her assistance that America’! seven destroyers were piled on tho rode in a different part of trie island.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18393, 29 September 1923, Page 4
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152WRECKED CUBA Evening Star, Issue 18393, 29 September 1923, Page 4
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