CANAL BLOCKED.
SHIP ON FIRE.
By telegraph, Press A'ss’ji, Copyright
Cairo, Sept. 6. Traffio in the Suez Canal is temporarily suspended, as tho steamer Chatham, for Yokohama, is on firo. Anxiety was oauaed owing to her having 70 tons of dynamite aboard. The firo has beon finally extinguished.
TRAFFIO RESUMED. By t*l»graph (J Pros* : Copyright Rooeived 11.14 p.m., Sept. 7. Cairo, Sopt. 7. The Chatham was sunk, and tho traffio in tho Canal has beon rosumed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1553, 8 September 1905, Page 2
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