Shanghai residents who returned to port on Wednesday morning by the str. Hsin Peking had an exciting story to relate of the last week end trip to Pootoo. This trip was made by them aboard the Hsin Kiangteen, and it was of a special nature as the whole of the first-class accommodation had been taken by members of the Union Club. The Hsin Kiangteen left Shanghai on Saturday afternoon, and after discharging passengers at ningpo, sailed for Pootoo.
By the time Ningpo was left there were already fears of encountering [the typhoon which had been signi-nailed the previous ds wind was blowing, accompanied by sudden squalls of rain, but by the time anchor was dropped off thi landing place at Pootoo, the weather had largely cleared up and. the Passengers proceeded to go ashore.
The Storm Descends All went well until towards five o'clock in the afternoon. Most of the passengers had gone ashore with the intention of bathing, a few visiting the temples, and about the hour mentioned they made a return to the landing pier.
Just then the syren of the steamer sounded a warning, and the trippers were faced with the Prospect of a passage to the shi through very rough ard choppy water. Morzover the wind wa: rapidly rising and the waves increasing in strength. To make matters. worse all the sailing sampans, which had brought great many of the people ashore, had cleared off to take shelter. In! the circumstances only the ship's boat was available to carry some 30 foreign passengers, as well as very many Chinese, to the Hsin Kiangteen, Even as carly as this the prospects of all getting aboard thet ight seemed none too bright. craft proved unmanageable andi lying in the trough of the sea, it appeared as if she might be capsized at any moment.
At length it was found possible to get her bow to the waves but there was no chance now to make the ship, and a long and arduous struggle took place to gain the shore. Little by little—absolutely snail's pace,—the "boat tp-_ proached the island, and finally was} Yun ashore on a sandy beach half' a mile from where she had set off.
More than half of those in the boat were women, but even during, the most tense moments, when i was known that it was touch and go whether the craft would remai afloat or not, their behaviour was, splendid,
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