The D'Artagnan arrived in the Formosa channel on the 13th and received wireless advice as to the whereabouts of a typhoon which wag. travelling North-westward. The position of the latter was stich that the captain deemed it necessary to proceed dead slow with a view to allowing the typhoon to past, as continuance of the regular speed of the vessel would have brought him somewhere near the centre. about this time the Empress of Asia passed the D'Artagnan at great speed evidently with the intention off passing the spot where the typhoon was expected to be at a given time off by, water.
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