STEAMER SINKING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 7, 19 October 1931, Page 6

STEAMER SINKING.

• . JAPANESE SHIP'S S.O.S. LOSS OF 38 ABOARD FEARED. -- r (United Press Association— Copyright) VANCOUVER, October 16> A message from Portland, Oregon, states that the steamer -President Jefferson, on which Colonel, C. E. and Mrs Lindbergh are returning to the United States,, is searching for the Japanese steamer Yonan Maru \n&* tons). The last call from the missing vessel was received here, a frantic * SOS.:' 'We are now sinking. The President Jefferson so far has been unable to locate the stricken vessel, which it is feared has been carried to death, with a crew of o», including 10 -officers. She left Port£nd for S Shanghai with 10,000,000 feet of log wood and 8100 tons of wheat The last position given was 500 miles south-west of Dutch Harbour. There was a stiff gale, with heavy seas Later advice states that the deck load 'of the Yonan Maru, which was re-, ported to be sinking early on Jjriday in the world's worst fog belt south of the Western Aleutian Islands was found late on Friday afternoon by the President Jefferson, which, with the • Ayana Maru and the Taigen Maru, failed to find any other trace of the Yonan Maru. The stricken vessel indicated that earlier she had lost hei lumbei" deck load. . According to messages received by the Mackay Radio Station, the President Jefferson reported that visibility was poor, owing to heavy ram and high seas. SEARCH REVEALS NO TRACE. DUTCH HARBOUR (Alaska), Oct. 17. The Japanese steamer Rwasai sent a radio message on Saturday meht renorting that she had cruised lor several hours in the last reported position of the Yonan Maru, but found nothing.