HAMS. Bridgewater arrived at Woo sung on Tuesday (Dee. 4) and Toft again after a stay. short Tt was learnt from the British OMce that, "beyond four bodies and five Jife-belts, nothing ha been found of the lost, freight Taishan, of the San Peh S. N, Company. One of the life-belts picked up by HMS. Bridgewater was sent to Shanghai.
'The Taishan left Tsingtao for Shanghai on November 26. She was commanded by Capt. V. Heilemann, Norwegian, and had a crew of 32 Chinese, besides more than ten coolies.' Yesterday, some 40 persons, relatives of the missing men, visited the Shanghai office of the company in the hope of hearing favourable news.
The Commander of H.MS. Bridgewater, in a report to "the British Naval Office in Shanghai, stated the belief that the ship foundered to the northeast of the Wulaisha Shoal. For 1% days, the British sloop searched without success for any signs of the missing vessel round the shoals op-Posite the old mouth of the Yellow Tsingioo.
River, approximately 100 miles from
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