500 DROWN WHEN FERRY CAPSIZES.
DISASTER FOLLOWS PASSENGERS’ RUSH TO VESSEL’S SIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, A us. and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 15. 910 a.m.' SHANGHAI. June 14. Five hundred Chinese were drowned at Swatow*, the southern seaport, when a ferr3* crossing the harbour capsized owing to the passengers crowding to one side as the ferry swung on th® strong tide to recover a small package dropped overboaM. The majority of the bodies were re* covered.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18182, 15 June 1927, Page 8
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