THE AFRIQUE DISASTER
$ . . CREW DTD ALT, THAT WAS POSSIBLE. (Bee January 10, 7.25 p.m.) Paris, January 17. In view of the comments that only Senegalese soldiers and members of the ciew were saved from (ho wreck of the
Afrique, inquiry has elicited that tho crew did everything possible, the stokers remaining at their posts till the vessel struck the rooks. There was r.o panic'but the passengers hesitated, to tako their places in the boats owing to the mountainous seas. It is slated that owing to the pumps..becoming choked with cindersi what might have been a mere accident became a disaster.—"The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 98, 20 January 1920, Page 7
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101THE AFRIQUE DISASTER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 98, 20 January 1920, Page 7
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