RESCUE SHIPS REACH PRESIDENT HOOVER
(Received 10 a.m.7 NEW YORK, December 12. Three rescue ships, namely, the liner President McKinley and the United Stales destroyers Alden and Baker, have reached the liner President Hoover, which lies stranded on a reef off the east coast of Formosa, and will take the 485 passengers to Manila as soon as possible. It is understood, the President McKinley will take aboard all the passengers and some of the crew. A. message from the Alden reported that the President Hoover was lying 600 yards from the beach. There were heavy seas on her weather side, but the liner was not pounding. The President McKinley has advised the Dollar Line that she picked up the President Hoover’s passengers from the islands and will arrive at Manila op Thursday,
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Northern Advocate, 14 December 1937, Page 7
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