Four Chinese Saved from Drowning near Nanking Four lives were saved by the lifeboat crew of the IES. Tuckwo when that vessel was experiencing! heavy weather on its recent voyage) down to the Yangtze.
When approaching Nanking on her downward trip to Shanghai a few days ago, the officer on watch on the I-C: S. Tuckwo noticed four Chinese in the water clinging to the bottom of an upturned sampan, Immediately, a lifeboat was lowered with a foreign officer in charge, to] igh rescue the men who were obviously exhausted. Owing to the heavy weather It was some time before the boat could reach them, but it was' not until the lifeboat endeavoured to return that the strenuousness of their task became apparent.
'Try as they would, the crew could) make no headway' against—the} troubled waters, and for some minutes there was much of anxiety as to the outcome. Fortunately, the efforts were observed by those on board H.M.S. Carodoe whicn [despatched & motor boat to the scene and towed the lifeboat back to the Tuckwo where the four Chinese were cared for until the ves sel's arrival in Nanking.
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