231
defiance, for
210
ave, un
unless
it is the moutance Offices,
control
ber
in
Then it
any way. may
be said.
"Wies not the Chinese Authori.
"ties help by forbidding their subjects to
overcrowd the steamer out of regard for their country's
man's liver.
to
I have frica
move them but without
result. I have not
ental apathy,
aw
her
start, myself,
how she ever.
made the
awa
voyage
of seventy miles in safety into me. Sad there
mystery
been, for any reason, a rush
of passengers to
one side, she
must inevitably have capsized. The "Sing Ching" belonging the Kaiping
20
many
only
Ari.
ale
as I said be.
fore, to contend with, but
these Chinese Officials are some of the worst offenders them-
selves
air
crowding.
Chi, a
the
matter of over. The steamer Kwang little boat of under is the property of Shing Faotai, lake of Chefoo,
200 tons.
of Fientsin. In March
last she left for Port Stathur
on board.
with 800 passengers
Coal Coy, in which
Chinese Mandarins.
pecuniarily interested, -
made the same
ad
dangerously
almas
voyage
lader. Au re
ceipt of your despatch under acknowledgment
cated the contents of it to Li, our present Favtai. This is his reply:-
I have already
written to the Japanese and
"Russian Consuls to
"to (the Masters and
orders
give
Agent of)
"their steamers to consider the
"number of passengers
that the
"Tonnage