ORAZIO CASUALTIES
OVER HUNDRED LIVES LOST
INCLUDING 44 PASSENGERS,
FIRE DUE TO MECHANICAL ACCIDENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) GENOA. January 25.
The Italian Line stated that 44 passengers and 60 seamen of the Orazio have been given up as lost. There were 645 aboard and 541 were saved, of which number a child died of burns.
The owners' investigation shows that the fire was due entirely to a mechanical accident to a motor. The Orazio carried 1500 tons of cargo. Shipping circles believe that the total loss will be over .£500.000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 5
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95ORAZIO CASUALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 5
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