Two Japanese Shipping Disasters

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1933, Page 7

Two Japanese Shipping Disasters

♦' —■ OVER TWO HUNDRED DROWNED Received Tuesday, 9.30 p.m. KOBE, July 11. A Japanese Dairen liner yesterday morning sank the Chinese steamer Tonan between Shanghai and Dairen, drowning over a hundred. On the same afternoon a motor boat with 130 excursionists returning to Shikopi from the Miyauima inland sea, struck a rock and was wrecked. Fishermen hurried to the rescue, picking up 27. The remainder are believed to have been drowned. There was a swift current at the spot which was remote, hence the delay in the despatch of rescuers. I

were brought to Sydney to-day. Mr. Ernest Hewish, with a fractured skull and collarbone is the worst sufferer. The passengers declare it was a miracle that the whole of the occupants of the first and second carriages which were sleepers, were not killed or gravely injured, having regard to . the severe damage wrought to these two vehicles. One passenger was thrown from an upper bunk through a window to the permanent way. The derailment was due to a broken switch rail at the catch points some distance back from the scene, causing the engine to leave the rails and tear up the permanent way for a consider- i able distance. 1