According to reports which have just reached Shanghai, fire broke out aboard the inv. Tongking, when this vessel was approaching Penang. The ship was sighted ablaze on April 7. and is believed to have been burning for several days. No loss of life was reported, but the cargo is probably lost, The Tongking is a 9,825 ton motor vessel belonging to the East Asiatic Ca. Ltd. built in 1914 in Danemark,
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