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MYSTERY REGARDING FATE OF TWO HUNDRED OF COMPANY MANY TRAPPED IN CABINS
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Rec. May 18, 1 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. Latest details regarding the Georges Philippar are that she is still ablaze and has a 15 degrees list to port. The latest reports show that 698 of the passengers and crew were saved, the fate of the remaining 200 being a mystery, but possibly some are aboard additional rescue ships. Captain Owen, of the steamer Contractor, wirelesses that he reached the Georges Philippar three hours after seeing a fire on the horizon 35 miles distant. "Hundreds of people were on the poop and forecastle head,'' he added. "I launched some boats and rescued 129. I learned that many first-class passengers were trapped in their cabins. A French engineer told me that the fire began in an empty cabin-de-luxe through a short circuit, and that it travelled rapidly through the st'aterooms. The survivors were in their night clothes, having lost everything." The Contractor is dUe at Aden today. The search for survivors continues.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 226, 18 May 1932, Page 5
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