Chinese Naval Launch Capsizes
SIXTY NAVAL MEN NOT ACCOUNTED FOR.
Uuited Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. SHANGHAI, September 20.
Sixty persons are missing following tho capsizing of a Chinese naval launch after leaving Weihaiwei Island for the mainland.
The vessel which was overloaded with two hundred Chinese naval men, had scarcely left the jetty when it overturned. A British gunboat succeeded in rescuing many, but sixty are not accounted for.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 221, 21 September 1934, Page 6
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