BRITISH SHIP LOST
WRECKED IN CHINA SEA. ALL ON BOARD RESCUED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. HONG KONG, October 24. The British steamer Fatshan, proceeding to Canton, hit submerged rocks off the beach of Lintin Island, a Japanese base. Forty-eight Europeans, most of them English and American missionaries, were landed, but the remainder of her passengers, who were Chinese, remained aboard the vessel although the bottom was torn out. preferably to landing in Japanese territory. All were later rescued by British warships and a Chinese merchantman.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1939, Page 6
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84BRITISH SHIP LOST Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1939, Page 6
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