NAVAL DISASTER.
Da telegraph', Presa A'es’n, Copyright Loudon, Sopt. 18.
Tho Toldo correspondent of tbo Doily Expross siatos that two-thirds of tho orow and a majority of tho officers aro lost, Tho sailors mado dosporoto offotts to stop tho progress of tho flames. Tho Daily Mail correspondent says that of tho 899 on board many ivoro killed. Tho Daily Nows asks whether tho disaster was aaoidontol or tho deliberate act of a fanatic dissatisfied with tho poaoo terms. It hopes that inquiry will show that tho oatastropho bolongs to the category of Admiral Tryon’s or tho Royal Sovorolgn disasters—acoidonts whloh werocoßtly and tragic, but not sinister. The newspapers oxpross sympathy with Japan in the disaster at the opening of a glorious poaoo, and whon tho oommand of her own seas was acknowledged by tho whole world.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1559, 15 September 1905, Page 3
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