A boating accident recalling in some degree the terrible catastrophe which overtook the launch of H.M.S, Edgar, on the Lith of November 1895, off Chemulpo, is reported from Saseho. The Senior Officer of the Saseho Naval Station wires under date 13th instant that one of the boats of H.1.J.M.'s ship Kaimon Kun, with a landing party of fifty marines,' upset while making for the shore, and Lieut. Tanimoto and eight men were drowned.—Kobe Herald.
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