CHINESE DISASTER
PASSENGER STEAMER SINKS HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright IiOXGKOXG, January ](>.• There was a terrible shipping disaster this morning when the merchant steamer Hsinwah, Ironi Shanghai lor Hongkong, grounded at Waglaii JsInml in the early hours, Captain Jensen, a Dane, managed to get off the rocks hy going astern, hut an hoar after llie vessel sank in deep water, earning down 300 passengers and JOO of the crew. Only one lifeboat was hiunehed, hut it capsized in' the heavy seas. Only twenty were picked up hy Chinese lisTicnncn. It is believed there acre three other foreign officers, hut only one was saved, a Hnssian named Jacobsen. Many women and children were lost. It is'believed that many of the passengers were disbanded Chinese soldiers. The Hsinwah was of 8.000 Lons, and she was seven years old. She sank with the utmost suddenness, giving no chance to those aboard.—United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 20076, 17 January 1929, Page 7
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