Serious Outbreak at Sea Confined) to Aft Hold A fire occurred on Thursday off ush week aboard the str. Warren f Manila, loaded with timber consigned "to a Chinese firm in Shanghai, The conflagration which took pplnee in the aft hold must have! been serious in the early. stage for the smoke when found ity wie into the engine-room. As it oe curred at, sow the crow had anxious time in getting the ship, to port. Fortunately, the Warren old American army! transport converted into a Tuumbor ship. consequently" well! equipped with fire fighting! and by damping! tehes and pumping) steam into the affected area the! crew managed to keep the blaze! tunder control until the ship reach.
Shuang last Friday! morning.
'The vessel lay till the afternoon! wailing for a favourable. tide. la) loner to be take to Kinngaen! Docks' buoys. As her steering) gear was out of Condor it wns ind neoessney to use two tow, boats for this purpose. an opera
more complicated by the fact that, nel ae sendere oran the ship suffered from a list duc to the fact that the water pumped into the hold had worked its way' to one side of the vessel. fo cause has yet been found for the fire though the theory of spontaneous combustion has, been! nivaneed. Nothing definite will, be discovered, however. until it is possible to remove the deck cargo lad unfascen the hatches. hob even certain yet whether the fire hae been properly extinguish fine from thet amount oF star pumped in it is)
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