Japanese Transport Afire
BEACHED TO PREVENT DANGER TO SHIPPING United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 1 a.m. SHANGHAI, May 22.
Tho Japanese army transport Bombay Maru caught fire in tho harbour this morning a few hours before the troops embarked on their return to Japan. The vessel carried a hundred tons of gasolene. The fire spread rapidly, threatening the wharves and other shins, which necessitated the cutting tho hawsers, taking the flaming Bombay Maru through tho harbour and beaching her on tho river where she is still burning.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6865, 23 May 1932, Page 6
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