Shanghai, Mar. 9.
No further messages were received by the British naval authorities In Shanghai yesterday from H.M.S. Capetown, which effected the rescue of 30 mem. bers of the crew of the French steamer Yolande off the Shantung Promontory on March Judging by the last reports to be received, which covered the situation' up to late on March 7. the 56 survivors had been safely embarked in the Capetown, which was making for Weihaiwei. Seven members of the crew were not accounted for, wantage on March 4 with a cargo of 400 tons of slack coal, bound for Shanghai.
As once again HMS. Capetown comes to the rescue: it will be re-fealled that she was "lost" for several months in the earlier part of the hostilities, the majority of her crew being taken off, and transported to Hongkong on the special "Capetown 1 Express." A few days before Christmas last year, the Capetown set off from Hankow with a party of fifty elvillans aboard, in an excit~ Ing attempt to "make" the boom which was being constructed near Kiuielang, and which was closed only shortly after the British cruiser had slipped through. 'The cruiser twice ran aground on her way down river, and finally arrived off Woosung' on the day before Christmas. With her came a convoy of British merchant. ships.
One of the Capetown's officers, Lieutenant G. A. Tree, Is at present Shanghai, serving with the British naval authorities here.
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