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*Hongkong Telegraph", August 28th, 1913.
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MATSURA MARU DISASTER.
Little Damage Done.
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doubtless furnish all details of the disaster which
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befell the Mataura Maru, the new Mitsui Bishi Goshi
Kaisha boat on her maiden voyage from London to Hongkong
when only two days journey from her destination.
the meantime, says the "Singapore Free Press” of August
20th, it must be a great consolation to her owners to
know that, providing there is no great disturbance of
waters surrounding the Paracel islands in the China Seav
there is good reason to hope that the vessel and her
cargo of valuable machinery will be recovered little
worse for the mishap.
Captain Keith and the eight European and forty
Asiatic members of the crew, who were rescued from
their precarious situation by Captain Yamawaki and
brought to Singapore in the Hitachi Maru, are at
present in Singapore awaiting instructions as to what to
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do.
A representative of the "Singapore Free Press" was
yesterday able to elicit a few further particulars of
the disaster. With the reports that have been brought
into
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