BRITISH SHIP WRECKED
IN CHINA SEA Hi P A —Hv Electric Telegraph— Gnpvrfeht! HONG KONG, 24th October. The British steamer Fatshan, proceeding to Canton, hit submerged rocks off the beach of Lintin Island, a Japanese base. Forty-eight Europeans, most of them English and American missionaries, were landed, but the remainder of her passengers, who were Chinese, remained aboard the vessel although the bottom was torn out, preferably to landing in Japanese territory. All were later rescued by British warships and a Chinese merchant-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 October 1939, Page 4
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