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HOLD BELIEVED CAUSE
OF KAITANGATA'S LOSS
Gasolene vapour which found its way from No.
2 Hold to the stokehold and was ignited when the fires were being cleaned, was, in the opinion of the Court of Inquiry into the burning of the Kaitanga- ta, the cause of the disaster.
In the course of yesterday's sit ting, Mr. Thomas Easdale, chief en * gineer, gave evidence of noticing smell of gasolene in the stoke hold some hours before the outbreak, but said that as he had, on pre- vious occasions, when carrying af similar cargo under the same con- ditions also noticed the smell, - he did not think it sufficiently serious to report
from
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BUCHAREST
Bucharest, Today.
The following was the finding off
The Rumanian Prime Minister, the Court:
The sa. Kaitangata, official num M. Tartarescu, had a lengthy a ber 123623 was on a voyage chence of King Carol yesterday cargo of 23,342 cases of aviation afternoon, when he handed an spirit and 995 cases of lubricating haustive memorandum reviewing
Hong Kong to Haiphong with a
The ship left Hong Kong at 5.47 foreign and home political achieve- am on October 24, 1937 and ex-ments of his government in the perienced lightnorth-easterly past four years.
FLAMES RAPID
to
The audience gave rumours that the Government was
winds and a slight swell. On Octo ber 25, 1937, when in a position Lat 20 degrees, 40' North, Long 112 degrees East, a violent exploresigning but this was quashed by sion occurred in No. 2 hold a few an official statement.
The Premier refused to grant an minutes after midnight.
interview to eager newspapermen, The flames spread rapidly and but later the King held consulta explosions occurred in other holds tions with various party leaders.
As the mandate of the present and the ship was eventually aban- doned, and sank with the loss of Parliament and the Governmen 18 Chinese members of the crew itself, expires next Monday, it and other, who subsequently died hoped that reconstruction of the Cabinet will have been completed from injuries received.
The cargo appears to have been by Saturday at the latest well stowed, hatches were covered Ocean. with tarpaulins and ventilators plugged.
We are of the opinion that gaso- lene vapour found its way from No.
12 hold to the stoke hold and was ignited when the fires were being cleaned.
We are unable definitely to say how the vapour arrived in the stoke-hold but there is a reasonabl supposition that it leaked through the wooden fore bulkhead of the cross bunker,, thence through the cross bunker and the water-tight
bulkhead doors in the sto
we com
In these
der that a fas
from whicke
may have taken place
to
the first explosion in No. 2 hold.
COURT'S RECOMMENDATION
We make the following recom- mendations
REARMAMENT IN PRAGUE
Prague, To-day. National defence needs are well to
forefront in the Czecho Slovakian Budget for 1938, presented
Parliament by the Finance Minis ter yesterday.
The Minister announced that from 1934 to today the Government had
the spent
sum of 5,830,000,000 extraordinary arma Trans-Ocean,
HAIG STATUE UNVEILING
London, Today.
and
Representatives of the Colonial That when low-flash inflammable military forces at the unveiling liquids are stored under hatches, the Haig Statue by the they should only be carried in com- Gloucester to-day include partments the bulkheads of which non-commissioned officers are gas-tight and without openings from the Somali and Camel Corp and such cargo should not be ad-the King's African Rifles, the F1 jacent to the boiler room.
Defence Force, the Nigeria Regi The following was the composi-ment, Royal West African Frontier Commons at question-time that retion of the court: The Hon Force and the Southern and Nor
London, To-day.
The War Secretary told the
cruiting has been steadily improv ing in recent months.
Figures to be issued for the London area would again king increase of over
with the veek of last year. He
there had be the standard of
edical
Comdr. 1. B. Newill D.S.0, EN (Retro), Acting Harbour Master President, Lient Comdr.
RN. IM Nava Mr. W. 0. Lambert,
arine Surveyor, Capf
Capt
ter of the &8. Scalaria,
Hardie, ster of the 8.8.
thefts from
Hotel have
6 while Mr G. Fico
thera
Brigades, King's African British Wireless
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