The ship “Bosphorus” carrying fifty prefabricated houses for Israel as a gift of the American Jewish Labor Committee, the Workmen’s Circle of New York, and Norwegian labor groups caught fire outside of Istanbul and sank, according to a cable received here today from the Turkish city.
No lives were lost, but all the houses and building equipment were destroyed, the cable said. The houses were insured. They were being sent to Israel in memory of 28 Jewish children from North Africa who lost their lives in a plane crash while en route to Norway for physical rehabilitation.
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