SABOTAGE SUSPECTED
ON BRITISH CRUISER
Received January 19, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 18.
The Daily Mail’s correspondent says that cabotage is suspected in connection with a fire in a hangar aboard the cruiser Birmingham at Portsmouth dockyard on January 15 owing to the discovery of some oil-soaked cotton waste in the wing of a seaplane in the hangar. The fire broke out in the Starboard hangar of the Birmingham on January 2 and shavings were found ablaze in a minesweeper here on January 5.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 10
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84SABOTAGE SUSPECTED Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 10
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