Most of Trapped Vessels Freed at Tientsin: Chinese Ship Burns Deck Materials PRACTICALLY all the ships Tientsin, Feb. 8. ice-bound in the Gulf of Chihli have been freed with the exception of the Chinese vessel Suikong.
The Suikong, which sprang a leak on account of the pressure of the surrounding ice, is at present burning material from the decks for fud, as she has run out of coal.
She is, however, in no danger.
Messrs, Butterfield and Swire's Nam 18, Hupeh and Chekiang have reached Tientsin safely. radioed that she was stuck fast The Shengking, from Shanghai, the ice with' the s. Huichow.
Later, however, came a wireless stating that both vessels had been freed, and were awol the afternoon tide to make for
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