Late to-night police launches, light ing up the harbour with searchlights, were still collecting bodies and ren.- nants of bodies. Eighteen corpses had already teen recovered, but it|bedy was not possible to give the exact casualties before morning.
At first it was feared that there might also have been some foreign victims of the ghastly tragedy, as Queen's Pier is next to Star Ferry, the main ferry from Kowloon. It had been pretty well established tonight, however, that there were no foreigners killed or injured—Reuter, In addition to these victims, several people living in sampans near the scene of the disaster and passers-by fare believed to have been hit by fragments from the launch and the Pedestrians. Thought Killed of the hot weather, many
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