Local People Amazed: Disdains The latest information regarding the Hamburg-America liner Rheinland, which was beached in Gravener Channel, 40 miles below Hankow, after being rammed by the Japanese freighter Mitzuki Maru on~Jt june 16, carries little hope that the Jean be saved; in fact we und that she has already been abandoned to the underwriters as a total loss.
Leaving aside the incidents immediately' preceding the accident, it that the Rheinland was i ite the engine-room, the result being a gaping hole nine fect by three feet. She comenced to sink immediately, and as obviously there was no hope of her remaining afloat, her master adopted the only course open to him, and beached her.
Unfortunately, the place where she was grounded consists of little better that a quicksand, with the result that she is stated to have settled down considerably since the day of the collision. We are informed that the only portions of the Rheinland that, axe now showing are the upper parts of her bridge and funnel, and 'Some of the cargo in her foreholds was saved and has since been sent to Hankow, but the cargo in her alter fort, consisting mostly of beans and' bean-oaks, isan utter Ines.
According to one account from gentleman who was on the spot, there was considerable trouble, soon after the casualty, with what con-irated little better than pirates. Tt seems that about 300 coolies were snt down from Hankow to assist in salving as much of the cargo and that a number of thi presumably in e6llusion with Chinese Tiving in the district, made a system atic attempt to rob the wrecked vessel of anything worth stealing. of the robbing going on, and Rrrompt. £08 Informant himself saw some ly "'waded-into" and laid out five of the pirates. Aa it was evident that further trouble was to be feared in the Sedan Chair
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