TRANSPORT AFIRE
BEACHED ON RIVER-BANK
'By Telegraph —Per Press Association)
'SHANGHAI, May 22. A Japanese army transport caught fire in the harbour this morning, a few hours before troops embarked, returning to Japan. The vessel carried one hundred tons of gasoline. The fire spread rapidly threatening the wharves and other idiips, necessitating the cutting of hawsers and talcing the flaming vessel through the harbour and benching her on the river bank where she is still burning.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320523.2.34
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1932, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
76TRANSPORT AFIRE Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1932, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in