LINER BURNT

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1929, Page 5

LINER BURNT

Cl GA B ETTE BUT!’ STARTS THE FIRE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). BERLIN, March 26. The “Europa” life 1 is now under control. The engineers report that the stern, the lower deck, and the engine room are not seriously damaged, and they can he saved. It is supposed that, a cigarette butt dropped into some inflammable painters’ material caused the lire. TH E IXSFRANCE LIABILFIT ES. LONDON, March 27. The lire on the Europa is likely to ■ rove tile Worst disaster that the marine insurance market has known for veers. Although ihe -insurance originally was placed in Germany, the risk was so extensively reinsured in London that it is probable.that the greatest portion of it will lie held here. Policies a r# believed, to have been taken out on an insured value of throe millions sterling for a period of twenty-one months. HOPE OF SALVAGE. (Received this day at 1.5 p.tn.' BERLIN, March 27. An inspection of the Europa eon firms the hope that the stern engines, boilers and hull escaped damage and greater hopes are therefore entertained of rebuilding the vessel, though it is expected such a task would ocelli v a year. The forepart and centre provide a terrible spectacle of devastation. Stout iron girders are twisted und bent like wire. The cause of the disaster is still a mystery and it is very difficult to investigate owing to the absolute, destruction of all traces of the origin.