STEAMER WRECKED.
(Received November 6, 9.10 a.m.) BRISBANE, November 6. News received from Swatow, in China, reports the loss of the steamer Isle, bound for Japan and Hongkong. She encountered a typhoon, and sank. The captain's children, and also a 'Chinese crew were drowned. The bodies were washed ashore. The natives stripped the clothing from the dead bodies, and eried to tear the jewellery from the bodies of those still living.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10470, 7 November 1911, Page 3
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71STEAMER WRECKED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10470, 7 November 1911, Page 3
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