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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, MAY 23, 1938.
Woman Jumps
From Macao STOP PRESS NEWS QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
Steamer
RESCUED BY LIFEBOAT,
BUT DIES ABOARD
Passengers bound from Hong- kong to Macao in the Kinshun witnessed an exciting rescue shortly after the ship left har- bour limits yesterday morning, when a Chinese woman deck passenger jumped overboard.
The ship immediately stopped and the emergency boot was lowered, in charge of the chief officer.
The Kinshan circled around for woman was same time before the sighted, by the lifeboat, struggling teebly in the water.
She was pulled aboard and taken back to the Kinshan where Dr. Yue, of the Tung Wan Hospital, who was a possenger aboard, rendered arti- fetal respiration.
Despite his efforts the woman died without regnining consciousness. The body was conveyed to Macao.
Flood Disaster
In Austria, Many Dead
Vienna, May 22. Many fatalities are feared as!
Mur in
a result of the River
¤LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY Styria, Carinthia, bursting its
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The resulting rush of water over the countryside is described as the in Austrian greatest Blood disaster
history.
mank
All traffe between Austria Yugo-Slavin 13 reported in have stopped, with all the bridges swept
Hway.
The disaster is
10 attributed sudden melting of snow on the high- rain. lands, followed by excessive
The country north of Graz is said to
be "one wild, brown stream."
Many houses in Fornleiden hus been swept away.
Twenty-seven
people are murooned in one building. -Reuter.
YACHT, BECALMED, LED TO POLICE
LAUNCH SEARCH
A police launch wan despatched last night to search for a yacht which, it was at first thought, had met with difficulties during the violent squall yesterday evening.
A report, made to the palice by a yacht another yachtsman, that nailed by Mr. W. H. E. Stephenson, of the Audit Department, was seen in the centre of a squall shortly be fore 6 o'clock, gained significance as the night wore on, and the craft was stl reported missing.
The yacht was finally sighted just before 11
4 Pollee p.m. by No. Launch, which towed it into harbour. "We were becalmed, after the and squall, west of Green Island, noated there for about four hours." Mr. Stephenson told the Telegraph,
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a Japanese destroyer shelled thei place yesterday and again to-i day.
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withdraw finally forced to
It is evident from recent setions by Japanese warships and bombers, that un attempt is being made to take control of sea communications in the Pearl Delta in order to block entrance to Canton. Our Own Correspondent. |
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Rio de Janeiro, May 22, Six persons, Including Senhor Cardoso, Minister for Justice in the Rio Grande de Desul State govern- ment, are reported to have perished when a passenger plane overturned In the sea near Santos to-day.
Ten others were saved, including a nephew of the President of Brazil, Dr. G. Vargas.-Router.
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