The Archive · 1933

Chinese to the Rescue

Nanking, Nov. 27.

To-day, at 3.80 p.m, ten sailors from the Warship, which was an-Jchored in the opposite stream of Hsiakwan, were proceeding to Hsiakwan for' sight-seeing, when the motor Iaunch had engine-trouble in As the engine was being rep: ed the launch eapsised and sank 0 toa sudden gust of the north Rescue parties were at once de-Ispatehed to the scene of disaster from the Japanese destroyer flotilla and the Chinese Water Police, which were successful in picking up, seven [sailors from the stream, while the Fenaining three, who struggled extreme cold, were xubmerged under water and

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