FOUR HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN CHINESE SHIPPING DISASTER
Steamer Founders Suddenly After Grounding
No Chance of Escape hr Passengers and Crew Australian Press Association. Received Wednesday, 11.20 p.m. HONGKONG, Jan. 10. A terrible shipping disaster occurred this morning when the China merchant’s steamer Hsimvah from Shanghai for Hongkong grounded on Waelan Island in the early hours. Captain Jensen, a Dane, managed to get off the rocks by going astern, but an hour after the vessel sank in deep water, carrying down three hundred passengers and a hundred of the crew. There was only one lifeboat which it managed to launch, hut this immediately capsized in the heavy seas. Twenty survivors only were picked up by 'Chinese fishermen. It is believed there were three other foreign officers, hut only one was saved; a Russian, named Jacobsen. Many women and children were lost. It is also believed many of the passengers were disbanded Chinese soldiers. Heavy seas are believed to he the reason why the vessel was driven on the rocks. The Hsinwah was of two thousand tons and was seven years old. She sank with the utmost suddenness, giving no chance for those aboard.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6813, 17 January 1929, Page 7
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193FOUR HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN CHINESE SHIPPING DISASTER Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6813, 17 January 1929, Page 7
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