SHIP AFIRE

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1932, Page 5

SHIP AFIRE

5 MILES FROM LAND

60.0 PASSENGERS ABANDON BOAT..

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(Received this <iav at 9.25 a m) LONDON, May 16

The latest “Messagenes Maritimes” liner launched m 1930, tlie 21,00 J tenner, Georges Phiilipar, bound for Marseilles from Cliinn., is afire five miles from Cape Guanlaliii. The six hundred passengers have abandoned the ship, three being badly burnt. The Hakone Maru. hurrying to the iscene, passed an empty life boat. The loss oflile is not yet, known. The Otranto and Kaiserihind are racing to pick up the passengers.

The Liverpool vessels, Malisud and Contractor, and the Russian naptha ship. Sovietskaro have already arrived. *

THE SURVIVORS

London, May -ie;

Tiie ftbaheiohed Jiulk of the, Georges Phiilipar bad by sundown'drifted twenty miles north of Giiardaftii, the water hissing in a stream ffotn the blistering sides. It caiiiiot yet be said whether the entire company were saved,- though' it is hoped they are distributed amongst the rescuing vessels, ■;i:i >JTwo British steamers, Contractor and Mahsud ate hastening to port with 129 and 134 survivors aboard. -mul

The Pliiflipaf’s commander, Captain Vicq and four hundred others are ( believed to be aboard the Russian jfcankov Sovietskaift.. whose wireless,operators are tonguetied by the difference in language, and are unable to communicate details;

fCa.no Guarda"ni is on the most north eastern point of Africa, at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden.”