FIRE ON A STEAMER
INiGENDIARISM SUSPECTED. OUTBREAKS ON EX-GERMAN LINERS. <A. and N.Z. Coble). LONDON, Dec. lo A serious -fire occurred l«t© it night in cargo steamer Boouali lying 1 at Albert Docks. Thei outbreak started among \va;r material and captured Gemian aeroplanes, and all were burning strong ly at midnight. The vessel was due to proceed to Hull to-day. Recent outbreaks on former German liners, njs for example^ 'the Swakopmund and Hifbei%tus, as "nell as *h© former German raider de Kalb, in America, and Cape Verde in the Thames last (week while loadling f**r Australia, are attracting suspicion of organised incendiarism. ■
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Thames Star, Volume LIII, Issue 14069, 17 December 1919, Page 3
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102FIRE ON A STEAMER Thames Star, Volume LIII, Issue 14069, 17 December 1919, Page 3
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