Swiftly answering 5.0.5. messages from the Yolande, H.M.S. Capetown, a cruiser which has had more than its fair share of excitement during its most recent visit to China, sped to the Bay. While on her way, the Capetown picked up reports from the Yolande that she had now swung around until she was broadside on io the mountainous waves, and was slowly breaking up owing to a strong northerly wind. The Capetown flashed this information through to Shanghai, and later reported that she had passed the Yolande at 130 pr. on March 6. The Yolande's upper deck was awash, and seas were breaking right over her.
Suspense' ran high among the local naval authorities, and the ship's agents, when it was reported that there was no sign of life aboard the sinking ship. The Capetown wifes] lessed that a landing party was þe-ing put ashore at Yung Ching Bhy, from which a breeches buoy ápparatus could be rocketted out to the Yolande, and tthe crew brought ashore.
Arrived ashore, the commander of the Capetwon, Captain Cuthbert Coppinger, obtained the services of a Chinese customs officer as guide. for the party of thirty bluejackets and officers, including six rifes, with one of the party bearing the Union Jack proudly aloft. Later yesterday, four Chinese survivors, who managed to reach the shore. reported that there were six foreigners and about sixty Chinese still aboard, including the ca his daughter. The ship w to be breaking up, and it wi that there little hope further survivors being brought ashore.
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