The Archive · 1938

To Hongkong

Italian Liner Sail — To Enter Dock for Repairs; Takes No Passengers

Lloyd Triestino's fast 17000 ton liner Conte Rosso sailed "from the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Company's Hongkew Wharf, yesterday morning for Hongkong where she will enter dry dock for the repair of her bow. damaged this Sund: when she ran on a rock of Fisherman's Island while proceeding in a deep fog.

Damage proved to be less serious than at first feared' and the tenders which met the vessel at the Fairway Buoy pilot station, 43 miles off Woosung, returned to this port with the liner, on Wednesday morning. Passengers -disembarked at the Hongkew Wharf and were conveyed by tenders to the Customs Jetty in accordance with the usual arrangements.

The vessel took. no passengers. mail or cargo from this port. After the repairs are completed, which should take about two or three weeks, the Conte Rosso will resume her regular voyage to Trieste via the usual ports of call Concession Robbery A rice merchant at 115 Rue Amiral Courbet, French Concession, was robbed of $187 late on Wednesday night, when three robbers entered his house. With an armed man standing guard outside and another holding up the occupants, the third one searched for valuables. The trio escaped with $187 worth of ornaments and cash.

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