SABOTAGE ALLEGED
FIRES ON WARSHIPS OIL-SOAKED COTTON-WASTE FOUND HANGAR ON CRUISER BIRMINGHAM [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 19th January, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, 18th January. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent says that sabotage is suspected in connection with a fire in the hangar aboard the cruiser Birmingham at Portsmouth Dockyard on 15th January owing to the discovery of oil-soaked cotton waste in the wing of a seaplane in the hangar. Fire broke out in the starboard hangar of the Birmingham on 2nd January, and shavings were found ablaze in the mine-sweeper Hebe on sth January.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 January 1938, Page 7
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