BURNING HUIK SINKS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 119, 23 May 1932, Page 7

BURNING HUIK SINKS

END OF GEORGES PH’LLIPAR FOUNDERS AFTER LONG DRIFT GOLL' INGOTS ABOARD By Telcgrar-1- Tress — Copyright) I’ARIS, May 20. The motor liner Georges Phillipar, abandoned in flames near Cape Guardafui on the morning of .May 16, foundered lust night. The great vesseil, or nearly 17,000 tons on her maiden voyage, drifted 160 miles still burning, before she sank. She was gutted fore ami aft, and no wreckage was left afloat. The fierce heat prevented the salvage tug Preserver from taking hold. She had aboard gold ingots worth £30,000 from Colombo. The number missing is now computed to be 36, but survivors at Djibouti say that a lifeboat capsized near Cape Guardafui. and tin advantage of a calm sea. may have enabled some of the occupants to reach the shore. INQUIRY DEMANDED PUBLIC OPINION STIRRED Received Alay 22, 6.10 p.m. LONDON, May 21. Public opinion throughout France is gravely disturbed by the Phillipai tragedy, and there is an insistent de inand. for a most searching iuquir.) into the cause of the fire and the hand ling of the situation after the fire. D is discovered that this will undoubt edly take place when Captain Vici] and tho officers return.

Captain Vicq’s disclosure that the flames broke out simultaneously at several widely different points is regarded as mysterious, especially as the naval engineers who built the ship deny the possibility of simultaneous short circuits or even any short circuit owing to the careful insulation otho wires. Tho Alossageries Alaritimes offices nt Paris are still haunted by friends and relatives anxious about th? 48 missing