COLLISIONS AT SEA.
A SHIP SUNK. IN THE MALACCA STRAITS. EIGHT MEN MISSING. Bj Tel«ar»i)h.— l'teis Association.— Copyrlgat (Received July 29, 10.20 a.m.) SINGAPORE, 28th July. The ship Mersing has been sunk in a collision with the steamer Khengseng, in the Straits of Malacca. Eight men are rrfissing. A SCHOONER SUNK. CREW BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED. LONDON, 28tl, July. The Midland Railway Company's passenger steamer Antrim (2100 tons gross), during a fog at Belfast^ collided with a echoorter, which it cut in two. The schooner sank in ten seconds, and the Antrim made a long search for survivors, but without result. It is believed that the crew, numbering seven men, were drowned. STEAMER EMPRESS OF CHINA. POSITION HOPELESS. (Received July 29, 10.20 a.m.) TOKIO, 28th July. The position of the steamer Empress of China, which went ashoro on the Japanese coast during a recent typhoon, is reported to be critical. STRtfGK~ON A ROCK. FOURTEEN MEN DROWNED, (Received July 29, 1.20 p.m.)' OTTAWA, 28th July. News has been received from Halifax, Nova Scotia, that the steamer John Ir* win struck a rock and sank. 1 There is only one survivor out of a crew of fifteen men,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1911, Page 5
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