The Archive · 1908

Telegraph."

THR HAZEL DOLLAR AGROUND

According to reports which reached Osaka papers, the British steamer Hazel Dollar, which—left Kobe at 10 o'clock on July 27 for Yokohama, stranded about a mile off Sano, Izumi, near Kishiwada, at 11.30 the same night. Signals were made by the steamer, and the Mayor of Sano with a party of men went to her assistance. At 1.30 p.m. next day the Superintendent of the Osaka Water Police and a number of policemen, with an. interpreter, proceeded to the scene of the accident in a Water Police launch, The stermer was refloated at high tide in the evening at about 7 o'clock, and proceeded on her course for Yokohama, No information on the matter has been received by the agents in Kobe. How the vessel came to be so far out of her course as to go aground at Sano is not explained.—* The Japan Chronicl

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