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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 2615, 1923.

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DISASTER AT SEA. MIDNIGHT COLLISION OFF THE

JOHORE · COAST..

Malay what happened, but received no reply.

"I then went back to my cabin and took down my lifebelt, in case of neces sity and met Mr. Freeman, to whom I KORE THAN THIRTY LIVES LOST, passed on a lifebelt to bo given to K Malay woman. I collected sil the valu- The Straits Times of March 16th says:able papers. I carried, and proceeded on Local waters have been singularly, free dock. There I met the second engineer, from disasters of a serious nature for a and was talking to him, when the water considerable time, but on Wednesday rushed like a cataract over the dock, the night last the record was unfortunately ship, which had begun to roll badly for broken by a most distressing occurrence a few minutes previously, sunk stem frit, off the East Coast of the Peninsula, neat and we were precipitated into the water, the Sibu Channel, slightly south from some clinging to the bigbor portions of the Endau border in Johore. The Rance the vessel before she totally disappeared belonging to the Straits Steamship Com from sight,

pany, came into collision about midnight. “An almost indescribable scene followed, with the Boribat, owned by the Siam and what with the shrieks afound us, and Steam Navigation Company, and the the auction caused by the sinking of the former vessel was so badly hit that she vessel, it was a sorry time that follow went down in a few moments and thirty- 1 ed. I felt myself being drawn in, and for ous of those on board lost their lives, some time I socmed to have loss count of including Mr. Sinclair, one of the everything. I then realised my position engineers, who left the B.I. Tanda six and endeavoured to reach some Malays, months ago to join the Straits Steam who were crowded on a raft. There wa ship Co., and was to have come ashore Malay near me and getting hold of after this trip to qualify for promotion him I got along with his aid safely to the to a higher grade. The Rance has been raft. I really owe my life to this Malay ruauing to Mersing, and Kuantan and We managed to paddle the raft by menus was returning to Singapore at the time of a stick picked up out of the water, ward bound for East Coast posta: no far I used to good effect, by drawing the as Trengganu. The Rance was expected attention of the crew of a boat sent out to reach Singapore yesterday morning by the Boribat. In this boat, wo eventu and as she did not appear at the Ally reached that vessel after a little over accustomed bour some anxiety was felt, a couple of hours immersion. Shortly increasing as the day wore on and no in after getting on board,, some one gave me formation

to hand. Then the pair of trousers. I discovered that it Boribat limped into part in the after was then a little past 2.m. ncon badly damaged about the stem, an brought the ragia:nows.

GANDE, PRICH & CO. LID,, of the disaster The Boring was out and the Malay gave me a whistle, which

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"The Boribat, when I reached her, was lying a good distance away, but with the By far the most disastrous affair of break of dawn she came up to the spot this character in recent times was the where the disaster had taken place, and collision between the La Seyne and the left about 8 o'clock on Thursday morning Onda in Rhip Straits, some thirty miles for Singapore. Beyond sqm wreckage from Singapore, on the night of Novem- there was nothing to indicate the surious. bor 14th, 1800, when nearly 100 persons ness of the midnight happening." on board the La Seyne wero · drowned, including 14 Europeans. There was also the case of the fary Aurtin about five years ago which went down in a few moments after collision of Penang invul The Secretary of Commerce has given ving the loss of the same number of lives a certificate of incorporation under the as appear to have been snorificed in the China Trade Act to F. & E. Setor To Rance disaster.

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engage in exporting American tobacco to A representative-of the Straits Times China. The following incorporators are was able, through the courtesy of Mr named as tomporary directors: Marion A. Resnier, a travelling representative of Butler (American citizen), American the Michelin Tyre Company, to get the National Bank Building, Washington, following story of the disaster:-

D.C., rasident temporary director; "I was asleep in my cabin" he said, Eugene C. Pomeroy (American citizen), "when about midnight a great noise Shanghai, China; E. Botor (naturalised awakened me, but I did not realise, at citizen), 22 East Forty-second Street, New the time what had happened. I looked York City: Fred Boter (Greek), 309, through my porthole on to the dock, and Canal Street, New York City; Margaret for a minute or so noticed nothing Radler (American citizen), 187, Forty-first usual. All I saw was a wealthy Malay Street, Brooklyn, NY. The new corpora 67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL meanding the deck, but on looking, tion is to act as sole agent for the F..

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