The Archive · 1905

THE PRINZ REGAN' LUITPOLD ASHORE

Soon after dawn on Sunday morning it was reported in Shanghai that the 8. Prinz Regent Lnitpold, bringing German mail of the 10th' ultimo, was ashore outside Woosung. This was a fact, and the greatest credit is due to the agents and officials of the Norddeutscher-Lloyd that the mail arrived in Shanghai shortly after 11a.m., and thatthe northern mail was transferred to the str. Kuiveberg. for Tsingtao long before that hour. 'The Prinz Regent Luitpold arrived outside Woosung on Saturday night at about 11,50 p.m. aiid was proceeding (o her usual anchorage, but presumably in trying to avoid the str. Tremont, anchored in the vicinity, she went' aground between the Lismore Light and the Blockhouse Buoy, and as she came in on three-quarter flood the incoming tide served to put her further aground rather than to.aid in dislodging her. The Shanghai Tog. and Lighter Corapxny's tug-boat Rocket, steam-lighter Waitung, and half-a-dozen other lighters were awaiting hor arrival to take off cargo, and the Waitung approached the mail steamer,

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