STEAMER SUNK
four hundred lives lost. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). 110NG KONG, Jan. Hi. There was a terrible shipping disaster this morning, when the China Merchant steamer Hsinwali, from Shanghai for Hongkong, grounded on YYaglan Island in the early hours. Captain Jensen. a Dane, managed to get her oil the rocks by going astVirn. hut an hour after the vessel sank in deep water, carrying down three hundred passengers, and a hundred of the crew. Only one lifeboat which it managed to launch, immediately capsized in the heavy .seas. Twenty only were picked up by Chinese fishermen. It is believed that there wore three . other foreign officers, but only one was saved, a. Russian named Jacobsen. Many women and children were lost. It is also, believed that many of the passengers wore disbanded Chinese soldiers. Heavy seas are believed to be the reason why the vessel was driven on the rocks. The Hsinwali was of two thousand tons, and seven years old. She sank with the utmost suddenness, giving no chance for those aboard.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1929, Page 6
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