BIG LINERS ASHORE
ON COAST OF JAPAN PASSENGERS AND MAILS SAVED. EzTelegraph—Press Association— Copyright. . TOKIO, July 27. The steamer Empress of China, which i left Vancouver on July 12th, strand- } od on a rock at tho southern point of i' tho Awa Peninsula, while inward i bound for Yokohama. | 'Tho accident occurred near tho : wreck of tho Great Northern steamer | Dakota. | Vice-Admiral Saito sent the cruisers i Aso and Soya to assist. They took off ! tho mails and baggage, and a hundred f . ‘ and eighty-five passengers. If tho steamer is saved she will take throe months to repair. Tho Peninsular and Oriental liner Palermo also went ashore in the typhoon. She is reported to bo undamaged. Tho Empress of China is a steel twinscrew steamer of 5947 tons, fitter! with wireloGß telegraphy. She is owned by the Canadian Pacific Hallway Company, and was built at Barrow in 1891. The Palermo is a steel twin-screw steamer of 7597 tons, built at Glasgow in 1903, and owned by tho Peninsular and Oriental Company.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 5
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