INFERNO ON A STEAMER.
BRITISH OFFICERS’ HEROISM DISPLAYED.
MANY ARABS MEET DREADFUL
FATE.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, May 25.
The Jeddah (Arabia) correspondent of the Petit Parisicnne pays tributp to the gallantry of two British officers of the steamer Arabistan in rescuing ter-ror-stricken pilgrims who were trapped on the blazing steamer Asia. The officers picked up fainting pilgrims and passed them over the side to a boat below, the officers remaining as calm as if they were playing a game of golf. One group of pilgrims tried to escape by an iron ladder, but were beaten back by the flames, whereupon all cut their throats.
Bodies were piled up on the red-hot deck.
Two of the four boats launched were swamped by panic-stricken natives jumping in. Most of fhem were drowned. Many others refused to attempt to' escape, and-remained in the diningsalon praying to Allah, with their faces turned towards Mecca.
The number of the dead is not yet known, but is estimated at between one hundred and two hundred.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1930, Page 5
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