THE JENA DISASTER.
FOUL PLAY ALLEGED,
Received March 15, 7.46 a.m
PARIS, March 14. The Missessy Basin has been reemptied. The Jena is now laying on blocks, supported by shores. The fore part is intact. The after part is seriously damaged. An enormous hole in the bottom to starboard enabled the gases to escape, otherwise the vessel would have been completely destroyed. The armour, screws and rudder are uninjured. The iron floorings are twisted into strange shapes. The killed and missing are now estimated at 118. All European rulers have telegraphed their sympathy to the M. Fallieres. The Journal des Debats says it is suggested .that the disaster was due to malevolence.
While the shattering of the dock gates flooded the Jena's interior and prevented the explosion of the principal magazine, it drowned the helpless wounded on the lower decks.
It is expected that the Jena will be repaired for coast defence or for training purposes. The Chamber and the Senate will adjourn to-day as a mark of sorrow. Twenty-nine of the Jena's crew have died in hospital.
Fifty corpses were found piled in one passage.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8382, 16 March 1907, Page 5
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186THE JENA DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8382, 16 March 1907, Page 5
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