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THE "CAP LAY.”

FULL STORY OF THE DISASTER.

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MARITIME HEROISM. HEROISM. Tales of heroism ranking high in maritime history, of men who work ed all night during a typhoon res cuing passengers, and of a French land through rock-strewn waters to summon aid when wireless

com- munication ceased are being told in connection with the wreck of the Chargeura Reunis, liner "Cap Lay," which sank in the Gulf, of Tonkin,

soldier voluntarily swimming to

14-15.

SECTION.

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SUPERHUMAN WORK,

launches later proceeding to the scene of the disaster: The number! of those rescued during the first two days were given as nearly 200, but this falls short of the number en the ship'a list and shorter still of a later list issued by the Chargeurs Reunis. This revised list states that in addition to the

Civilians of

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928.

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pick up those passengers who wore crew and 70 passengers, there are thrown into the water. It was this 175 Annamite troops who were be ⚫ boat which got adrift from the ing repatriated from France in the wreck and was the following day been stated to have been accom

ship. They were stated to have found by the Customs, launchi "Enga" stranded on a sandbank,modated in the steerage when the Aboard were French While the Captain directed the officers and Government function- EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

ship sank. evacuation of the passengers from artes proceeding to their posts in EMPRESS OF ABIA the upper deck, the other passen- Tonkin, and many of theas embark-EMPRESS OF CANADA gers' were similarly being looked ed at Saigon on the Ill-fated jour-EMPRESS OF RUSSIA after by the chief officer. The ship ney. was sufficiently near the rock to en-

both Bexes and able life lines to be connected up women-folk and children belonging with the

shore, but this by no to the milltary, fully took up the means represented the last stage to upper-deek accommodation. Aero safety.

planes are being used to search the numerous islets in the vicinity

the face of the rock to fall back into bodies of many victims are being Many passengers were torn from of the wreck for possible sur

vivors, while the badly battered! the water between the base of the trom time to declivity and the sinking ship. The taken to Haiphong for identifica

time recovered and) chief engineer, M. Damour and the tion. Meanwhile, a subscription third officer, M. Camus, did super-list has been opened In Haiphong human work, holding on to the rock in aid of those who suffer from metaphorically by the skin of their the teeth as they pulled to safety women have left Haiphong for the scene)

disaster. Salvage experts and children whom they helped to of the wreckage in order to ascer get ashore with the life-ine they had tain if the wreck can be salved. rigged up. Many others lost their lives while saving their less agile

ONLY DAVITS SHOWING. notable instance be seen lying

At low-tide, the "Cap Day" can companions,

on her starboard | being that of a French military ser-side, with the life-bont davits ahow geant who went about with an elec-ing above water. (See Illustrated tric torch, discovering people trap Section of this issue). It is thought ped in the holds and cabins of the it may be possible to salve a part ship and bringing them out to safe of the cargo, amounting to 1.300 tons of general merchandise. The He was never seen again after the value of this is unknown. general rescue, and his heroism now "Cap Lay" is a comparatively now The remains as one of the uplifting in-ship, being built in 1922 for the cidents in the story of the wreck. Franco-Indo-China passanger and

en route from Marseilles to fal- phong, during the terrible typhoon which raged on the night of July The liner, with cargo and a full passenger list, was caught in the typhoon which swept the Gulf and missed Hong Kong only by a hun- dred miles. The typhoon forced ..Sails hence on or about 26th Aug-the liner on the rocks in the Bale ..Sails hence on or about 20th Sept d'Along, and on the first shock the Salls honce on or about 16th Octailers blew up, ripping out the in- terior of the vessel and destroying the wireless apparatus.

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FIRST NEWS. First news of the wreck was ob- tained when a Customs launch pick ed up a lifeboat containing nine sur-ty

Later. a French soldier, vivors. who volunteered to swim ashoro, managed to get word to a wireless station ashore and immediately all available craft were mobilized to the task of life-saving. The "Cap Lay carried 260 passengers, most of whom were saved, but at least 100 Annamite soldiers, who were being repatriated, were drowned, together with members of the crew. Sur vivors tell gripping stories of their experiences when the typhoon piled the liner, of nearly 9,000 tons, on a sheer rock. Efforts to scram- ble ashore and climb the slippery side of the rock while the typhoon howled and blew around, and the ship slowly sank, make up one of the most harrowing stories of ship- wrecks in the Far East. Captain Benteu, master of the ship, was one of the survivors who reached Hui- phong, where he gave an official report of the wreck.

When the liner entered the bay

he was able to keep in wireless com.

munication with the shore and de- scribed his movements, but the typhoon grew in intensity.

HIGH WIND.

The wind. Captain Benteu declar-

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Other sidelights on the rescue freight service. She is one of the work are provided by the parts Chargeurs Reunis fleet of vessels, which the pilot, Lerroque, and a of which the "Claude Chappe" is French private, Georges Barberis, another well-known unit regularly. played. Barberis was going to Ton-running between Haiphong and kin on enlistment in the Colonel Saigon. The "Claude Chappe" service, and revealed his devotion to which sailed from Saigon only a duty by the following modest ac-few hours before the "Cap Lay." count of what he and Lerroque did: escaped the typhoon and had reach- "When the ship was sinking." he ed Haiphong when the latter met said, to a French newspaper re- with disaster. porter, "I was able to leap on to the rock.

M. Lerroque did likewise, but noticing a rope dangling from the ship, he had seized it and at- MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. tached one end to his waist. the ship was continually closing in

As

and then drawing back from the The D. & Co. 8.5. "Venezia" sall: rock, we profited by those moments and is due here on Monday after ed from Singapore on August 15, when the deck was sufficiently brought within reach to haul the passengers out to safety." But the

noon.

The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of slippery and sloping surface of the "Russia" is due at Hong Kong on rock offered at the best but a trea- Monday morning. She leaves for cherous. foothold, and Private Manila on Tuesday at 5 p.m.. Barberis said he saw many passen- gers drop back into the aen, to be

The 8.9. "Benlawers" from Leith, Middlesbro', London and Stralis

The M.V. "Japan" (Swedish East Asiatic Co., Ltd.) left Ham- burg on July 7, and is due here! on or about August 22.

crushed to death between the ship left Singapore for this port on ed, rose to such phenomenal and the base of the cliff, Monday pitch that he was forced to drop morning weather conditions im August 16, and la due to arrive

here on August 22, anchor with the view to riding out proved somewhat, but dawn brokė the storm in one of the passes in on a wild scene. the Baie d'Along. The darkness

WASHED ON ROCKS, was made the more impenetrable by

Many persona

had gone down reason of the heavy rain then fall with the ship, of which only the ing, and the danger was intensified one remaining mast was visible The CP.S. R.M.S. "Empress of by their unknown position. It was above the water, the other having Canada" from

snapped off like matchwood dur- August 8, left Yokohama on August

Hong Kong D ently improve to enable them to take ing the storm. The ship, in sink-16, noon, and is due at Vancouver bearings and determine thair exact ing, had taken a heavy list to stor- on August 26. place of anchorage; but disaster board and was in some 40-ft. of jovertook the ship before any deci- water.

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The survivors were dispersed ed from Norfolk on July 29, and second anchor could be dropped, the along the surface of the rocky as-is expected here on Sept. 24. chain of the first one snapped carpment on which they found

The M.V. "Sumatra" - (Bwedish

asunder, and to the horror of those themselves. Others were washed East Asiatic Co., Ltd.) left Ham- on board, the "Cap Lay" was car on to neighbouring islets to be burg on July 22, and fs due here ried with incredible speed before later picked up by the customs on or about August 31..

the storm into the darkness,

to the horror of the situation, the

electric lights went out as the dynamos became submerged.

launches proceeding post haste

The ship struck a rock which from Haiphong to the rescue. here, in the dreaded Henrietta Pass, Concerning the dispatch of the jut, needle-like, out of the water at warning to the coastguard stations, the northern end of the channel. Private Barberis, continuing his Again and again and again, the narrative said: "When day broke, "Cap Lay" was borne back by the the Captain of the ill-fated ship waves to be hurled with sickening called for a volunteer to swim to force against the rocky face of the the neighbouring village of Cacba, cliff. (Photo in local pictorial sec- where there was a radio station, tion, Page 7). Nothing could stand which could be used to apprise the against such treatment, and the authorities on shore of the wreck ship began to sink, holed in many of the "Cap Lay" and the plight of places. With the first shock, the the survivors."

Barberis volunteered for the ship vibrated from end to end, the boilers exploded as water filled the task, and he set out for his long engine-room compartment. To add swim equipped with a life-belt.

which Barberis took} The course was strewn with many rocks and islets which time and again deceiv ed the exhausted swimmer into STYGIAN DARKNESS

thinking that he had arrived at his The prompt action of the Captain destination. Many hours of pre- and plot in warning the passengers clous daylight were thus spent in undoubtedly saved many lives. Cap. negotiating dne Island after the tain Benteu early gave orders for other, and night had fallen when, lifebelts to be donned by the pas from a rocky pinnacle which sengers and when disaster came, he. Barberis had climbed, he espied in

number of junks.) had mapped out his plan for their the distance a

Ho was terribly handicap Barberia was absolutely nude, and ped by the worst weather condition the boatmen, although surprised at imaginable--the Stygian darkness seeing a white man in that condi- tion. were little disposed to come the ship's lights went out, the torrential downpour of rain and at his signal. He had, therefore, the repeated shocks as the vessel to swim towards them and even- hurled itself again and again on the The boatman gave him rice and tually got on to the nearest craft.. rock. In the work of rescue which tea, and by signs and gestures followed, tribute is paid to the hero they were at length, induced to ism and presence of mind of take Barberis to the wireless sta- the ship's officers and crew who, tion at Cacba. assisted by the military who were.

rescue.

as

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Barberis affectionately, got him a 'One of the ship's lifeboats which warm meal and bed and hurried off was still undamaged was launched to give the warning which result- with some of the craw in order to ́ed in a number of Government]

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