STEAMER ABLAZE.
AT ALBERT DOCKS,
SERIES OF SIMILAR FIRES
SUPPOSED INCENDIARISM
(Received 9.25 a.m.)
LONDON, Dec. 15
A serious fire occurred late last night in the, cargo aboard the steamer Boonah, lying at the Albert Docks.
The outbreak started among war material and captured German aeroplanes, and all was burning strongly at midnight.
The vessel was due to proceed to Hull to-day.
Recent outbreaks on former German liners —as for example the Swakapmund and the Hubetus, as well as the former German raider de Kalb, in America, and the Cape Verde in the Thames last week, while loading for Australia, are arousing a suspicion of organised incendiarism. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 17 December 1919, Page 5
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