Involved in the disaster near Ping /Huan, in which over 50. passengers were' drowned recently, the steam Iaunch Yung Shing has been ordered {to suspend operation by the Kisngesu Provincial Government. The launch iwas on its way to Shanghai from /Huchow, the well-known silk producing centre in Chekiang, when it Jsank in the Grand Canal.' "It was said that it was turning on a sharp bend when it took a heavy list, and the water rushed in. Of seventy more passengers, only twenty were salvaged. saved. "The launch "was" later
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