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CHINESE SHIP GOES DOWN.
DEATH ROLL OF FORTY. SURVIVORS’ TERRIBLE ORDEAL. I'nit«(i Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI, Jan. 24. The steamer Heng An from Tsintao, with 60 passengers and 1 crew and a cargo of coal, foundered outside Shanghai on Monday at 1 a.m. Nineteen survivors, after three days in an open boat exposed to a northerly blizzard, were rescued this morning. A report states the Russian captain was seized by the chief officer at the last moment and thrown into a lifeboat. He regained bis ship, deciding to go down with her. Forty persons were drowned. The remainder have been brought to port, some in a state of collapse, suffering from cold and having been without water or food.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 January 1929, Page 5
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