STEAMER SINKS
FORTY-FIVE PERSONS MISSING
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 27
News hais been received of the disaster which has overtaken the steamer Ring in the Yangtse Gorges. The vessel struck a rock and sank in two minutes, End forty-five patspus arcreported missing, including several foreigners.
The Iling was one of a fleet of fast motor vessels of the American Company, operating between Shanghai and Icliang, through the treacherous gorges known as the “shipping graveyard.” Navigation is extremely difficult as the waters at present are at a dangerous height, the swirling rapids now covering tiie vessel, only the tip of the foremast showing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1932, Page 5
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