WRECKED ON ROCK
$ STEAMER’S BACK BROKEN STRUCK DURING FOG. I ALL THE CREW SAFE. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 8,20 a.m.) SHANGHAI, March 13. 1 The Nord Deutscher Lloyd steamer Giessen was totally wrecked on Button Rock, 80 miles from Shanghai, late on Tuesday night. The vessel was en route from Hamburg. It is believed Diet it was not carrying passengers. .
She struck' the rock, which is in a treacherous part of the Yangtse River, during a fog. Her back was broken. Some of the crow took refuge on the rock. The olhors took to the boats and were picked up by the Pando Khiva, outward bound from Shanghai.
It is believed that no lives were lost.
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Northern Advocate, 14 March 1929, Page 5
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