Champlain Fired

Fortnight ago, as the French liner Lafayette lay burning in a Havre drydock. the crew of the French liner Champlain was on strike in the same port. After midnight one night last week, two fires were discovered on the Champlain, one in a cabin, one in a linen locker. Both were quickly put out. A 22-year-old sailor named Joseph Salou, found in a companionway, was arrested. Sailor Salou confessed that he had started the fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried to cover up by starting a fire in the lower deck linen locker, so that by giving the alarm for both fires I would be given credit for watchfulness instead of being blamed."

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