Believed to have Foundered with All Hands Mar, 11.
The destroyer w for to return to Yokosuka, and it feared that the ship has foundered with all hands.
The vessel yesterday wirelessed that she was drifting in distress without a rudder about a hundred miles off Cape Inubo.
Owing to the tempestuous weather the aeroplanes which were to have assisted in the search were unable to take part, but they may make an attempt to-morrow to locate the ship if the wind drops.
Large numbers of parents and re-Hatives of the 27 students abroad the ill-fated vessel have assembled. at the Kagoshima Mercantile Marine [School (to, which the Kirishima Maru belonged) anxiously awaiting news.
The vessel carried a crew of 49,—Reuter.
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