in Maru Seriously aged by Flames Chinese incendiaries were believed to have started a fire on the N.Y.K. freighter Rozan Maru which was damaged on Sunday evening while berthed alongside the Yangtszepoo Wharf, the "Tairiku Shimpo" said yesterday.
'A fire was discovered on the ship at 7 o'clock in the evening but quick "action on the part of the crew prevented it from spreading and it was put out shortly afterward. About 1130 o'clock the same night another fire started and it spread all over the ship despite the desperate efforts of a fire brigade to control it.
It was controlled at 1 o'clock on Monday morning. The damage made the vessel unseaworthy.
Japanese gendarmes and consular police were hunting for persons believed to be responsible for the blaze. A large number of Chinese sailors was employed on the vessel; the fact that the fire started while the ship was at anchor also indicated that it was the work of incendiaries, the Japanese daily said.
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