Kobe, 30th October.
A collision occurred yesterday am. fifteen miles from Hakodate between the Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamer Tokai wand the Russian steamer Progress, in a thick fog The former sank h the loss forty lives, including the ¢"ptain and chief engineer.
The Progress was badly damaged, and returned to Hakodate with seven survivors from the Tok: Our own correspondent.
The Tokai Maru was a steamer of 31 tons gross, built at Glasgow in 1870, running between Aomori and Muroran, vid Unkodate, The Mrogress 878 tons gross, hi and owned la Vlad
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