Seurcely month passes but what, disaster is reported from one place for another in China the cause of which has been the overloading of forty or steamer. Ax showing to what an extent this can be carried, we may quote a ease from Dairen, reported in the "Manchuria Daily ww" in which the str. Chien Lee ied to that ort fror 5,570 Chinese adults and and children, while accommodation was 1 that the quarantine inspection could a lighters had 0 yyy employed 0 antaad wie wuma) Freight, and then the inspection took the record Uinte of Ace cording W an oticer of the stean found at Tsingtao a he arrivals, no, and the Chinesy authori= fe were anxious to yet rid 80 dove ak many as Pos the boat at the point The Japanese master of the protested, but he was ap= what had vent the capacity of the ship to accommodate or its lifeboats. to care for had anything gone wrong.
the report in. the "Manchuria Daily News" is correct, it shows a callous disregard on the part of officiaidom in Tsingtao for the lives ese men and women, and it terrible to think that sch action can be done with impunity, We. fear, furthermore that not only official but rapacious merchants are at times equally: guilty of over~ crowding practices, although seems difficult to find a parallel to such an outrageous ease az this,
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