TRAGEDY OF THE SEA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19876, 18 February 1920, Page 7

T RA G E D Y OF THE SEA.

ABANDONED ON FIRE. LOSS OF 119 LIVES. ONLY 22 SURVIVORS. By Telcgrnph—Prc«s A.soci»ticn—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Asaoination. (Received February 18. 10 a.m.) PARIS, February 16Tlio aulboritles have abandoned all hope of tiiero being further survivors from the steamer A’ille d’Alger, bound from Reunion Island to Havre, and abandoned on fire early in February. It is now nnnonneed that there were 119 deaths, and only ‘J2 survivors. In response to a wireless call the Yille de II avre sailed out from Reunion and discovered the Villo d’Alger ahandoned and burnt down to the water’s edge. Since then ships in the Indian Ocean have made a wide search for the missing lifeboats. One reached Reunion with seventeen men, a woman and four children in the last stages of exhaustion owing to exnosure and want of food. Iho I dle d Alger is still adrift, and is a. serious danger to vessels in the Indian Ocean. (The A ille d’Alger was a steel screw steamer of 4807 tons register, and was built in branee for a French shipping company. Reunion is an island in the Indian Ocean, oil the oast coast of -Madagascar.)