DISASTER AT SEA.
FRENCH BATTLESHIP DESTROYED. FIVE HUNDRED BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED. Received This Morning, 12.50 o'clock. PARIS, SepteinW 25. A fire occurred in the ammunition hold of the French battleship Liberte, at Marsailles. ' • A series of terrible explosions was caused. , The first explosion took place at five o'clock in tihe morning, and the second and (third an hour later. About one hundred men sprang into tihe water, and most of them were rescued. The last explosion burst fhe Liberte in halves, and she sank in nineteen minutes. It is feared that five hundred men-o'-warsmen have perished.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10433, 26 September 1911, Page 5
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97DISASTER AT SEA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10433, 26 September 1911, Page 5
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