OVERDUE WAR SLOOP.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14015, 21 September 1909, Page 2

OVERDUE WAR SLOOP.

THE CLIO. By Electric Tc^^-C^ißjt. , Anxiety is felt in Shanghai for the sloop Clio, which is fir 6 days overdue. A typhoon meanwhile is raging. The' cruiser Astrea ia searching fortthe sloop. [The Clio was launched in 1903, and is Attached to the China squadron. She has six guns, a tonnage of 1070 tons, and a speed of 18J knots an hour. The vessel is in charge of Commauder Charles T. Barrett.]