HUNDRED KILLED
EXPLOSION ON FRENCH CRUISER AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT TORPEDOING OF VESSEL DENIED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARIS, September 16.. It is officially stated that the French cruiser and minelayer Pluton suffered an accident aboard somewhere at sea. A hundred sailors were killed. This much was made known, French authorities said, in order to counteract the report that the warship had been torpedoed. An unconfirmed message from Casablanca states that 1000 were killed or wounded when the Plunton was blown up while loading. A hundred of the crew of 424 are dead; the other casualties occurred on the docks.
A dispatch from Saint Louis, Senegal, states: “Travellers from Casablanca declared that a mine exploded while (lie Pluton was loading, causing the ship to sink immediately. Buildings in the outskirts of the city were damaged.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 5
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