MOTOR VESSEL SINKS
WITH LOSS OF LIFE
TRAGEDY IN CHINA
By Telegraph —Copyright —Press Assn.
SHANGHAI, Last Night.
News has been received of a disaster which has overtaken the steamer Hing in the Yangtse Gorges. The vessel struck a rock and sank in two minutes. Forty-five persons arc reported missing, including several foreigners.
The Hing was one of a fleet of fast motor vessels of an American company operating between Shanghai and Ichang through the treacherous gorges known as a shipping graveyard. Navigation at present is extremely difficult. The waters are of a dangerous height with swirling rapids which now cover the vessel, only the tip of her foremast showing.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 131, 28 May 1932, Page 8
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