ON BURNING SHIP
WERE WOMEN ABANDONED? PUBLIC INDIGNATION. Renter's Telegram. CAPETOWN, December 15. Messages from Port Louis Btate that public indignation is expressed owing to allegations that women were abandoned on the steamer CSgale. The captain and officers and other survivors who arrived at Port Louis were received in silence. The Cigale was reported in earlier messages from Port Louis, Mauritius, to have caught fire and been burnt to the water’s edge. She was loaded with inflammable cargo, and explosions lesulted. The fire was temporarily got under control when the boiler exploded. Only one boat was intact. Women and children were put in the boat, which was rowed to St. Denis, in Reunion, and two rafts were got away. One of these was missing.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12014, 17 December 1924, Page 7
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124ON BURNING SHIP New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12014, 17 December 1924, Page 7
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