STEAMER ON FIRE.
HUNDRED LIVES LOST. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Monday, 1.10 a.m.) COLOMBO, Afay 29. The steamer Amiral Ponty has arrived here. A fire broke out in the Suez Canal. Many passengers, fearing that the Avholc ship Avould catch fire, jumped overboard and Avcre drowned. Altogether one hundred Avcre killed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14136, 9 June 1919, Page 5
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53STEAMER ON FIRE. Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14136, 9 June 1919, Page 5
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