Mr. and Mrs. E, S, Cunningham Among Passengers Rescued Foreed off her course in heavy weather, rain, and fog the Norddeutscher Lloyd str. Derflinger is fast upon the rocks of Hsiao Kung: Tao island near Tsiangtao. All her passengers, among whom were Mr.
Cunningham, U.S. Consul-General "in Shanghai, and" Mrs, Cunningham, have been taken off by American destroyers which were rushed to the scene of the wreck as soon as the first S.0.S. was received.
The U.S.8. Black Hawk and the U.S.S. Beaver are standing by.
The Derfinger was returning to Shanghai and Tsingtao from Dairen, on the second half of a round trip which took in Tsingtao, Take, and Dairen on the way out, From Shanghai the ship was due to leave for Europe, It is surmised that she must have struck late on July 16, Held fast by the bow resting on the rock, she began to take water into her Nos. 1. 2. and 3 holds, while hea the rescue of th 1U.8.8. Paul Jones arrived soon after, in answer to a wireless message for arsistanee, and with the seas dying down, the American sailors were able to take off the passengers, who numbered 42 in all, und take them jon: to Tsingtao, Mr. Cunningham, the U.S. Consul-General, was among the rescued, jo had been in Peking on business and was returning to Shanghai with Mrs. Canningham,
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