BLAZE ON AMERICAN SHIP
DAMAGE TO RUBBER CARGO.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.
Singapore, December 26.
Fifty passengers were roused from sleep at 3 o’clock in the morning and ordered ashore, following an outbreak of fire on the liner President Van Buren, which was making a round-the-world trip. The vessel was alongside the wharf at the time. The fire originated in the boiler-room and spread to the hold. It destroyed rubber worth £3OOO and another lot worth £OOOO was damaged by water.
The Van Buren will leave for New York to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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