Emerging, as it were, out of the Jaws of death, the skipper of he @oomed vessel! Yolande, which ran aground off Shantung Promontory early on the morning of March 6, arrived here on March 10 aboard the Jardine's s. Tingsang, together with daughter, the remaining four for~ clan officers of the Yolande, and 53 Chinese members of the crew. 'The foreign officers included the three decke emeers, and the wireless opera-for, all of the engineer officers being Chinese, 'The Tingsang picked up the survivors at Weibalwel, at 1030 a.m. fon Mar, 8. They had' been lariided there by HALS. Capetown, after the British cruiser fad carried out rescue operations, hauling survivors from the sinking vessel by means breeches buoy.
Altogether 86 survivors were saved from the Yolande, and it is feared that the remaining; members of the crew have been lost, They attempted fo effect a landing in mountainous seas before the Capetown's: rescue party had established contact with the Yolande by means of the breeches buoy, and itis feared that they were drowned in the huge waves which were then sending columns of water crashing right" over the Yolande, "The Yolande was named after the daughter of Captain C. B. Bertin, oviner and. skipper of the vessel, Alter the Yolande had run aground, the captain explained in an inter view, those on board spent two days and two nights of terror before they were finally rescued by the party from H.MS, Capetown. " The wireless room was washed away by the huge waves, and two staterooms next to the main saloon were splintered and went overboard, It would have been suicide, he said, to have gone out on to the deck, which was being swept by raging seas, Captain Loads Rifle The captain described how he was forced to load his rifle, and point it a number of the crew as they attempted to lower a lifeboat, would have meant certain death for them to Jauneh it, he declared. He told" them constantly to remain aboard, but in spite of his warning.
number: of the crew rushed out on deck, and tried to. jump overboard. Many of them could not even reach' the side of the ship before being caught by huge waves and hurled overboard, "The storm, said Captain Bertin, way one of the' worst ever experienced long these coasts. The commander the Capetown, he stated, told them that it was. the worst he had ever seen, On the second morning, the survivors found that the entire dare art of the ship, 150 feet long, had been washed away.
'A. warm tribute was paid to the heroic rescue work of KINS, Capetown by the captain of the Illefated Yolande. "I would like here to state my gratitude to the Capetown's crew for their wonderful kindness", he said, "cannot thank them enough, and' wish to. take this opportunity: to make my gratitude public. Even to the smallest Chinese boy on that ship they showed the same spirit. I shall never forget what they have dank One of the most striking. features of the thrilling drama which was brought to a conclusion by the arrival of the survivors in Shanghai was the heroism displayed und the most nerve-wracking conditions by the captain's daughter, Ass Yolande Bertin, who earned the whole-hearted admiration of the entire crew for the brave manner tu which she faced a truly hazardous situation,
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