After waiting for the dense fog to Uft outside of Hongkong harbour since yesterday afternoon, the P. & O. liner "Canton and the " Messageries Maritimes, vessel Marechal. Joffre, which collided yesterday morning, entered local dry docks at 320 p.m. two. ships came into port separately, having lost sight of each other after the collision which occur-ted in a dense fog. After the vessels exchanged radio messages determining the extent of their damage and learning that neither was in dangerous condition, they parted. They were only {wo miles apart, but neither liner could see the other because of the dense Although the impact at the time of the crash was extremely heavy, there was no panic aboard either vessel, officers of the liners reported.
The new 10,000-lon Canton suffered the worst damage. There were three gaping holes amidships the Canton when it came into dry dock today.
The newly-appointed French Ambassador to China, M. Henri Cosme, relumed from Chungking on board the Marechal Joffre, After the collision the Centon started taking water, but she was able to proceed to Hongkong under her own power—United Press.
Chitral Takes Canton's Schedule Hongkong, Mar. 31.
The P. & O. liner Chitral is leaving for Englund on April 2. instead of the Canton and will carry the Canon's passengers and cargo. The Chitral's passengers are being accommodated in Hongkong until trans-ort to Shanghai becomes avallsbe, Tsingtao Reopening Welcomed "London, Mar. 28.
'The reopening of Tsingtao is gen~ erally welcomed in London Far Eastern circles, Japanese circles em~ phasize it as first fruits of the steady efforts by the moderate elements in Japan' to relax the rigid policy of the extremists.
"They hope it will be accepted as a genuine effort on the part of Japan to satisfy the grievances of third parties, foreshowing further similar Sevena Japanese sentries were killed and one army plane lying on the ground damaged following a sally staged by Chinese guerillas upon the Japanese army aerodrome at Tazang on the night of March 20, says the "Shun Pao."
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