DISASTER FEARED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 616, 31 January 1916, Page 8

DISASTER FEARED.

A MISSING LINER. jAPPAM POSTED AT LIVERPOOL. ■ B'j Cnblr. — Prtts i.tsoriatiint —Copyright. LONDON, January 29. Most serious fears are fell for the JAppam, homeward bound. Eighty 'per cent, has been paid to reinsure her. She is six days overdue, and ;has been posted missing at Liverpool. It is reported that there arc 200 passengers and 132 of a crew aboard, including Sir E. M. Merej wether, Governor of Sierra Leone, I his wife, and suite, and many other West African Civil Servants. (Received January 31, !» a.m.) LONDON. January 30. The Appam, which was one of ■Elder Dempster and Co.'s show boats, was splendidly fitted, in dudting a wireless apparatus. Captain Harrison was one of the best-known | West African navigators. The vessel left Dakir on January ill, and was last seen on January 14. The boat which was picked up is j quite new, and capable of carrying 'lO people. Probably it was dami aged by a passing steamer hitting it in the darkness. A search revealed (no wreckage in the vicinity of the boat. Officials of the company suggest that, as one boat was afloat, others may be picked up by passing vessels. [A cable message ou Saturday stated that the West African liner Appam (7781 tons) carrjing IW* passengers, was believed to have been lost. A battered lifeboat *ai picked up at Madeira.)