Twenty-five Killed Through Capsizing of Boat Tientsin, Mar. 20, Twenty-five Chinese, mostly women and children, were drowned last night when a ferry-boat strad-died the hawsers of a dredger in the middle of the river and capsa-it appears that some 40 Chinese workers of the British Cigarette Ca. were crossing the iver from the ex-Russian Concession when the oarman, through neglect, an the out across the hawsers of the dredger.
Fifteen persons saved themselves, Including the ferry-man, by holding on to the hawsers of the dredger.
The ferry-man is reported to have bolted—Reuter,
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