FRENCH NAVAL DISASTER
MALEVOLENCE SUGGESTED.
118 FATALITIES. Paris, March It. The Missiessy basin lias lM?ei\ reemptied. The Jena is now lying on the blocks, supported l>y slvoves. The fi)\vj>av< is intact, but the after pa"t ha* b?cn seriously damaged. Hveve an hole ill the botLnn to starboud Avhicli enabled gases to o'.heiwise t-x vessel "would have bc;n co.npletely deThe rtvniour. md rudder are uninjured. The iron are twisted into strange shapes. The killed and missing are estimated at 118. AH the Knrop'an rulers teleuriph »-l their sympathy to President Falliere?. The j'rtimal "Ta» I>otales" has that the disaster was due to ii alevolence. While the shattering of the dock gates flooded Uu -lena's interior and prevented the explosion of the principal magazine, it drowned helpless and pounded on the lower decks. It is expected that'th? Jena will be Tepairid for defou** ">r training purport*. The Chamber and tliSenate adjourn to-day a.-- a mark of sorXovf.
Twenty-nine of the -.leua* eiew died In the hospital. Fifty coipfes were [mud pil-d in one passage.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 16 March 1907, Page 3
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