The Archive · 1926

Full Extent of Casualth Not Yet Known Tuesday

No further details have come Light regarding the collision bette the LES, Tungshing and the R.M Empress of Asia. Although the As} continued to Woosung after the cent, the Master brought the shi Lgek to the China Merchants' Low Wharf on Tuesday where she no is moored.

A rather thorough was made of the Tuesday morning and that no serious of the hull had taken place—a fe buckled plates and a bent po: Shanghai Dock & Engine begun work, and is thought th ery thing will be shipshape almost once. The liner was fix to sail at 10 a.m. on Friday.

Rumour "still has it that eight] and some say 10, people lost the lives as a result of the collision either by being thrown into ti water or by drowning, before th eoulé get outside. There is confirmation of the fact, howeve and as the compradore's books a still 90 ft. under water, it may some time before it is known ju

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