The Archive · 1940

Rescue From Spanish Ship Tenerife, Canary

'A French steamship yesterday rescued the crew and 200. passengers from the "12275-ton Spanish. liner Caba San Antonio. which earlier caught fre ju the Atlantic near the Canary Islands, unoMeial reports eeeived here last night satd.

The Spanish ship was reported to have caught fire 00 miles from here, presumably not og a result of belli-arent naval activity, Incomplete advices indicated that tone Portuguese ship and one British steamship also participated in. the rescue of atewmon and passengers from' the burning Spanish liner United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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