morning Messrs. Butterfield and Swire discovered. their s. Sulping had turned over on her side during the night and submerged herself in the muddy Whangpoo. Just how or why nobody knew exactly. Fortunately the ship, lying alongside the company's Watung Wharf just above the boom on the Pootung side, had been evacuated earlier.
In connection with the business of salvaging the Sniping, the company had lines thrown around her' but this was as far as they got for the closing of the boom has made It impossible for them to reach her for the time being and carry on with the work, it is: believed that shrapnel opened holes in the vessel during the hight allowing water to pour in but the actual cause of her' foundering cannot be ascertained until she can be examined. other merchant ship in the har-our has been victimized py. shot and shell as much as the Sulping, It began on Saturdsy when a Chi' mese bomb exploded beside her kil {ng sixteen and wounding many more fas reported previously. The vessel was "promptly evacuated on Satirday night and Sunday morning and left'lying at Watung Whart. But the missiles of war were not yet through with her and to-day she is reclining on: her side against: the bottom.
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