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Show BRITISH STEAMER IS ON FIRE AT SEA All Hands Taken Off by Anchor Liner; Doubt as to Name of the Vessel. HALIFAX, N. S.. Sept. !!. The Donaldson Don-aldson line steamer A thenla is on fire at sea. according to a wireless message received here late tonight. The steamer is bound from a British port, believed to be Glascow, for Montreal or Quebec. It was believed here that there are few. If any, passengers on board. A later message to the Dominion marine department said that 1 he steamer had been abandoned. The Anchor liner Tus-canla Tus-canla previously had been reported standing stand-ing by. and It was thought here she had taken off those on hoard the burning ship. MONTREAL. Sept 19. The vessel reported re-ported on fire in the Atlantic Is not the passenger liner Athenia, according to local lo-cal agents of the Donaldson line, who received advices tonight that the ship on fire Is the Athanae. a former German Ger-man vessel which was being taken to Halifax as a British prize. |