Seventy-üve Chinese members of the crews of the German vessels Odenwald and Munsterland, forced by the war to seek haven in Japanese ports, arrived in Shanghai in the s. President Pierce yesterday morning. The bodies of two Chinese sailors, late of the Odenwald, who died on board the President Pierce while enroute from Yokohama to Kobe were also taken off the American liner when she reached Shanghai.
The Odenwald a Hamburg-America line vessel sailed from Shanghai before the war for the United States via Japan. When the ship reached Yokohama the war commenced and she was forced to remain in Yokohama harbour, Sympathetic passengers in the President Pierce contributed to a generous fund to be donated to the families of the two dead Chinese.
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