The Archive · 1940

French Navy Thanked

Marseilles, Jan. 22.

All lifeboats carrying survivors of the Orazio, were picked up by rescue ships and therefore the only casualties of the blaze at sea were a number of wipers and mechanics in the engine-room, the French Admiralty announced this evening.

Tt was in the engine-room according to an officer of the Orazio, where occurred the explosion which set the liner ablaze yesterday morning when she was off the French coast, bound from Genoa for Valparaiso via Barcelona.

Information on the rescue of the last three lifeboats, carrying 107 passengers and sailors, was forwarded the Italian Consul here by the Admiralty this evening. The Consul upon receiving the information, expressed recognition of the pains taken by French vessels to aid in the rescue work and emphasized the "solidarity of all seamen." He also announced that survivors of the Orazio who had reached Marseilles earlier in the day in the French ship Ville d'Ajaccio had immediately left for Italy.—Havas.

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