EXPLOSION SINKS OIL TANKER
[By Electric Cable-Copyright] (Aust end N.Z Cablo Association.! (Received Friday, 11.3 p.m.) TOKIO, Feb. 17. Following an explosion aboard, the were in an exhausted condition by Peninsula.. Captain Hornes and I‘l others were drawned. Twenty-Jive survivors clung to wreckage from Wednesday night till Thursday morning. When rescued they were in an exhausted condition py Japanese fishermen. The Chuky was on route to Tokio with a cargo of 72,000 cases of kero sene.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6536, 18 February 1928, Page 9
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76EXPLOSION SINKS OIL TANKER Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6536, 18 February 1928, Page 9
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