Leaping on to the float of the Shanghai Rowing Club, a number of Eoatmen managed fo save themselves when their cargo boat sprang a. leak and capsized early on June 3. Realiz~ ing that their vessel was about to turn over, the boatmen tried to draw alongside the float but she expsized too soon forcing the men to jump for their lives.
Inlo about twelve feet of water sank a heavy, argo consisting of 408 angle irons. The salvage job was taken over by the China Salvage Ca. which sent 2 boat equipped with divers, By afternoon 350 of the angle irons had been recovered.
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