The Archive · 1938

S. PRES, HOOVER IS ABANDONED

Dollar Line Give Wreck to Underwriters San Francisco, Jan. 3.

The Dollar line announced here io-day that it was abandoning the President Hoover to the ship's underwriters. Tha Pres. Hoover recently went on the rocks off Formosa.

The cargo has been removed from the ship, but the captain and a skeleton crew are still aboard the Hoover, the announcement said. anese planes, but they did not y to intercept the raid while the visitors were over the c Instead they waited unti! the Japanese machines disappeared, then gave rapid chase, The Japanese planes rained over 70 small bombs on the aerodrome and the Hanyang arsenal The majority of them on or near the aerodrome, but the damage, consider ing the number of bombs' dropped, was comparatively. slight, The accuracy of the visitors was disturbed by the height at which they flew, as craters were dotted all around the eir feld whereon only a few missiles actually landed.

The alarm was sounded at 1 pin, the first of the Japanese raiders appearing 15 minutes later. The all-clear was sounded at pin,

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