In an endeavour to find the body of @ British marine, Harry Ash, who fell into the Huangpu from a. sampan off the Avenue Edward VII jetty, H.M.S. Hawkins and other men-of-war swept the river with their searchlights between 10 and 11 on Wednesday night. The Bund in the vicinity of the Shanghai Club and several building along the French attracting numerous spectators.
Marine Ash and a comrade, Mar-me Marchant, both of H.M.S. Haw kins, were returning from liberty. Marchant got into a sampan at the Avenue Edward VII jetty. At the time there was a strong ebb tide running, which drew the sampan a few feet from the pontoon. As Ash attempted to get into the craft he jumped short, falling into the river between the pontoon and the samely despatched a boat's crew in a motor-launch, who work-fed untiringly for half an hour with lines, trying to dislodge the drowned man from beneath the pontoon, under which it was apparent the tide had drawn him, but without success.
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