Yacht Seagull Capsizes in Squall with Mr. H. H. Fowkes and Laodah Drowned: Companion Swims "Ashore: Body Recovered The Sailing Committee of" the Shanghai Yacht Club had arranged a programme for the week-end cruise at Woosung which all the! members anticipated waild give them one of the merriest and most sporting outings,-but instead it w roared by a tragedy such as not occurred inthe memory of lest yachtsmen here, and the exews hid to return sorrowfully to report that one of the most popular members, Mr. H. H, Fowkes, and his second Iaodsh were rising in circumstances which Teave very little hope that they can alive. To make matters. wor on the way home another laod suddenly fell and expired, apparent-from heart trouble.
It was to be a very important outing, for the yachts were to race down to Woosung on Saturday, in two classes, and on Sunday the open. ing races in the newly-instituted international series—the first ever held by the club—were to be sailed. Tt was known on Saturday morning that there was a possibility Shanghai again being involved in the fringe of a typhoon and the race for that day was cancelled, Lut inthe forenoon the weather; cleared and hasty arrangements were made to adhere to the original Frogramme, 'The Violet, -Oistos, Seagull, Tweetie, Rover, Viking a Colleen' of the miscellaneous cla and the Byrne boats Gnome and Spook assembled for the start, at the Yangtszepoo Line shortly after 5 pam. The Byrne boats Sprite and Pixie in charge of laodah, went off independently about an hour earlier, the Kut Lee, of the mi: cus lass, sailed by a laodah single. handed, lett just' before the start of the race.
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