OCEAN INCENDIARIES AGAIN
FIRE ON BIG FRENCH LINER VESSEL RETURNING TO PORT By Telegraph—Press Association—QoryrigM
New York, November 8. The French Line steamer Rochambeav. (12,678 tons), owned by the- General Transatlantic Company, is on fire in her coal bunkers, in the Atlantic. The, vessel is returning to Halifax, although the captain reports that the danger is not serious. The outbreak is believed to be duo to a pro-German outrage. It now appears to be established that the fire on the Rio Lages was due to an incendiary bomb placed in a sugar bag. Criticism is growing regarding the employment of Germans and Austrians as stevedores at New York port.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2615, 10 November 1915, Page 5
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109OCEAN INCENDIARIES AGAIN Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2615, 10 November 1915, Page 5
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