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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1933.
STEAMER SINKS At 7.30 p.m. She took her flual
NEAR H.K.
NORWEIGIAN FREIGHTER LOST
POLICE RESCUES
.
Heavy mist and strong current netting towards the ahore are
plunge.
Thore was no time for any per- nonal effects to be saved. Cap- tain, Omeora, crew and passengers lost everything they pioenessců.
Asked what he considered was the cause of the wreck. Capt. Ormestad said the poor visibility combined with strong current netting shorewarda had undoubted- ly been powerful contributing factors.
The Rescue,
belleved to be responsible for the Immediately the ship struck If You Saw Inside Yourself sinking of the Norwegian steam-wireless mensages were sent out
What would you find? Would
er, Fjorden, which struck Cheung for assistance. The tugs, Edith, Chau Rock at 6.45 p.m. last night Kau Sing and Henry Keswick you find your food tract in a clean were immediately comfesioned, but and healthy condition? Or would while on her way to Hongkong before they could make a move you find it congested and unhealthy? If the latter were the едно Утна with a cargo of 43,000 picula of No. 4 Police Launch was steaming
and rice.
at 18 knots from her Mirs Bay could not expect to feel well
allowed to go on in your food tract The first authentic nows of the patrol to answer the S.0.S. call. happy. Any accumulation which is
She arrived frst
on the scene militates against your well-being in
wreck was provided when the No, 4
reach and immediately set about the many ways. The digestive system police launch, the first to Cheung Chau after the call for rescue work. The dingy with the reacts to the congestion, resulting in Ave Europeans was found drifting poor digestion, flatulence, fullness assistance had gone out, returned aimlessly, waterlagged and half after meals, loss of appetite liverish to the police pier at Kowloon. submerged. The oceupants woreness and sometimes sovere bllious
It was loaded down to the plim-taken off and given dry clothes. soll with 52, Chinese and five The passengers and crew who European survivors, who had been were taken off the two fishing causing loss of energy, making you rorcued from lifeboats and junka.
Junks were tronsferred police launch,
to the
or
attacks. Accumulated waste matter also contaminates the blood stream, liable to colds, headaches, dizziness. And sometimes the impurities lodge under the skin causing pimples The European officers were seated
boils. To keep it and happy you in the mess-room of the launch.
Two Still Missing.
must avoid cbrstipation by the use of The captain was wearing a uniform Only two remain unaccounted Pinkettes. This splendid all-veget borrowed from one of the police for, but it is almost cortain that able laxative is the nearest approach to nature you can get. Pinkettes, officers, while the others were clad they were picked up by a sampan. Liver and Laxative Perfection, keep in dishevelled overalls and borrowLate reports state that they left you clean inside. Take a dose or two ed clothing.
the wreck in a small dinghy and note how much happier you feel. All howed signa of having which capsized and were pleked All chemists can supply you with
Pinketten. passed through a severe ordeal, up. and their strange clothing testified
Police
It was nearly 12.30 a.m. this
No.
the to the haste with which they had morning when abandoned the ship. Many of the Launch arrived back with
Im- All were men. Chinese escaped with no clothing rescued
mediately taken in hand by thei
The on whatever.
Norweglan vessel's agent. Interviewed immediately after passengers and crew were taken the arrival of launch at the police to Chinese hotels in Youmati pier, Capt. Ormestad told the story while the officers were suitably of the wreck.
nccommodated elsewhere. Just as darkness was settling
The Fjorden was a regular caller down the ship ran into a mist on at Hongkong, being employed on the East side
of Cheung Chau, the run between Bangkok and the
Colony. She had not proceeded far when
She left Bangkok on Wednesday there was a splintering crash for last at 10.30 am. with a cargo of ward, and she came to a dead stop. 149,000 piculs of rice, and was ex-
As the Fjorden struck, she heeled (pected in port yesterday. over hard to port. Water camo pouring into the engine room and No. 1 hold.
The chief and second engineers escaped in the nick of time.
Passengers Panic.
Among the passengers all was paule and confusion. They rushed wildly hither and thither trying to cram into lifeboats.
Ship's History.
screw
namos
The vessel was a steel steamer of 1,625 tons nett. She has had a moat interesting career the since she was launched at Schilffa s.v. Shipbuilding Yards In Germany. Her original wore the Rheingraf, Blumberg, and Rudolph, respectively, but after the outbreak of the Great War, she was seized by the United States, It was fortunate that two Aber-converted into" a Coastal Defence deen junks were fishing in the vessel, and renamed the Beaufort. vicinity. Immediately they saw After the Great War she was de that the Norwegian vessel was in commissioned and sold to her pre- distress they hastened across to sent owners, the D/S A/S Fjor-
The den, of Bergen, Norway. the assistance of the crew,
The ship was constructed upon Captain and Chief Engineer re-
of the mained aboard the stricken vessel naval lines, and was one
first, other than naval véssels, to until almost the last minute.
have a cruiser stern. Small lifeboats hurried the crew across to the two junks which.. however, left before the European - officers had cleared the ship.
European Officers,
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