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World Scout Jamboree 1937
j.::;;=;;:::================~::::=:::::;::;:::;::::::=::::======;;--i Ship wreck mail
cover franked with a
single 12'/,c Jamboree
stamp, postmarked The
Hauge 14 August 1937
and addressed to
Batavia (now Jakarta).
The Dutch motor
vesse l "Kota Agoeng"
on her way from
Holland to the Dutch
East Indies caught fire
en route. She managted
to proceeded on fire to
cj Colombo, Ceylon (Sri
.µ Lanka), jettisoning
CD
i:1 8 tonnes of dynamite.
~ The fire was
.g extinguished at
CD Colombo on 2 Sept.
t-1 About 400 bags of mail
.6 originating from
!1) • Austria, France, the
H 0zH•• Nether la nd s and
CD
Pi Switzerland were
.~ partially burnt or
0 damaged by the water
t1) () used to exti nguish the
...; ~ • fire. Most of the mail
'cl Lr\
..a.;l involved was for-
.i:1
~ warded on receipt in
H 'd
I t-1 .µ the Netherlands Indies
0 al bearing an excuse
..Q
z.-I 0
label.
t-1
CD Kota Agoeng label
type 1 (small two-line
,.'t1 hO printed label).
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