CHINESE HIDDEN IN TANK.
FREMANTLE SENSATION. DISCOVERY ON DUTCH STEAMER (BT (ABLE—PSESS ASSOCIATIOS—COr-YKIGHT.) (AUSTRALIA* AND X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) FREMANTLE, October .21. Following the discovery that " had landed from the steamer Arendskerk at Sydney, Customs officers closely searched her sister ship, the A l -' - on arrival from Holland, and, deep down in the bowels of the ship, cooped in a small ballast tank, „erc. found fiftyfour Chinese. All were unconscious. The lid of the tank had been closed on the arrival of the vessel in port, ami cargo stacked over it. C' ''om.. officers are reticent, but one account says that the Chinese had been in the tank for three days without food or light. Eight arc cither dead or in a deathlike coma.
Gas masks had to bo worn by the searchers in removing the Chinese. In the bottom of the tank was a foot of water.
It is stated that it was the captain's intention to flood the tank for ballast when the cargo was removed from the hold.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 22 October 1927, Page 15
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170CHINESE HIDDEN IN TANK. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 22 October 1927, Page 15
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