YANGTSE SHIPPING DISASTER
DEATH ROLL TWO HUNDRED ALLEGED ARSON BY PIRATES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.-Copyright. Shanghai, Jan. 26. The deathroll in the Yangtse shipping disaster is now estimated at 200. Tire ship sank suddenly when the boiler burst. Rescued passengers claim that the vessel was set on fire by pirates, ten of whom escaped in two small boats after throwing casks of tallow and cotton into the engineroom, When plans to loot the vessel were upset as it grounded on a sandbank.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 9
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