STEAMER ON FIRE.
OVER A HUNDRED DEATHS. VESSEL NOW aDRIFT. By TelejTaph. -Press Assn.—'Jcpyrlsht. Paris, Feb. 18. The authorities have abandoned hope of further survivors from the steamer Ville D'Alger, bound from Reunion to Havre, which was abandoned on fire early in February. It is now announced that there were 110 deaths and 22 survivors. In response to a wireless call the Ville du Havre sailed out from Reunion and discovered the Ville D'Alger abandoned and burnt down to the water's ed"e. Since then ships in the Indian Ocean have made a wide search for the missing lifeboats. One reached- Reunion with seventeen men, a woman and four children in the last stages of exhaustion owing to exposure and want of foodThe Ville D'Alger is still adrift, and is a serious danger to vessels in the Indian Ocean—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1920, Page 5
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140STEAMER ON FIRE. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1920, Page 5
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