Alexandria, Oct, 18.
Seven members of the crew were killed and an equal number of others.
jured as the result of the fire which broke out to-day in the boiler-room the 12,000-ton Italian liner Ausonia while she lay at anchor in the outer harbour.
The fire, which followed an explosion, spread rapidly to all parts of the vessel, which, it is feared, will prove a total loss.
'Sailors from the British warships Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Revenge and Shropshire' took off all the) passengers safely in picket-boats.
High tributes were paid by the oticers of the ill-fated vessel to the magnificent rescue work of the Brit-Ish blue jackets, While the fire was at its height, a British naval pinnace, which had gone alongside the vessel, severed the anchor chain by means of an acetylene torch—Reuter.
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