Result of the Heavy Flooding:
Taken Off Without Harm Word had been. ved in Shanghai that the C2: S. Hwa Ta had run ashore in the Yangtze River near Hankow. The name, Hwa Ta, however, been disuse for some time and there is pew no China Merchants' vessel of that name. The ship that went ashore was the C. M. S, Kiang Ta.
The Yangtze River, near Hankow, at the present time is's0 flooded that it is quite impossible to tell exactly where the rive and the banks, under many. fect of water, begin. 'The Kiang Ta, had the misfortune to mistake the' banks for the river, with little foot h, primarily intended for the use iand-lubbers," instead of keoping to her own path, stuck.
This took place at 8 am, on Wednesday morning, and when Gaylight came it was leon that a telegraph "pole was rearing its Jength but a few hundred. yards from the vessel, so far had" shi strayed from her cour Luckily the unfortunate ship wat not forced to stay too: long on the Lank for on Thursday afternoon, the ©, M. S. Kiang An came to het rescue and towed her off, and she able to continue her interrupted journey, which she did without further mishap.
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