FIRE ON LINER
FRENCH EXPERTS UNABLE TO FIND CAUSE (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Parig, January 11. Tlte Minister of Marine reports that) tlie experts who examined the liner Atlantique were unable to decide the cause of the fire. The Minister received a letter from the coinmti.nder, Captain: Soli offs, reruinmentliug that the greatest recompense be made to the British steampr Fordcastle and tlie Dutch vessel Achilles not to tlie German vessel Ruhr, which was flu- first to reach the Atlantique' and rescued 86 men of the Dutch vessel Erato. Captain Scholl’s, explained that the Ruhr and the Erato- remained 500 yards away awaiting the Atlahltique’s lifeboats to reach them while- the Fordcastle and the Achilles, at the risk of catching fire came within 20 yards and helped "to rescue 18 men, includin'- himself from the sea.
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3930, 13 January 1933, Page 6
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