FIRE ON LINER
EUBBER CARGO DAMAGED SINGAPORE INCIDENT (|hee. Tel. t Copyright—United Press Assn.) e ■ •: ■ (Rceived;Dcc. 27, 11 a.m.) §V SINGAPORE, Dec. 26. * ; Fifty passengers were roused from their sleep at 3 o'clock in the morn- • in£ and ordered ashore, following an outbreak of lire on the liner President Yanbureri, which is making a round-tjuj-world trip. The vessel was alongside the wharf at the time. < The fire originated in the boiler <oora and spread to the hold and destroyed £9OUO worth of rubber, while another £6ooo,worth is damaged by - 'The President Vanburen leaves for New; York to-morrow.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 5
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