Another launch, one running between Hankow and Hwangchow, has got into trouble for another reason.
She is licensed to carry 140 passengers and no cargo, but she had Joaded 150 packages of cargo before! she took on about 280 passengers. As she was coming up the river] with a strong wind aft, a passenger fell overboard, and though he said to have kept afloat for twenty minutes, the launch was s0 heavily-loaded, and therefore so top-heavy, tht she could not manceuvre against the wind. The other passengers were so indignant that they reported the matter to the Customs, and the launch will get into trouble! for disregarding the conditions of
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