Show DISASTERS IN ORIENT S AUSE 1060 DEATHS f VICTORIA B B. B C. C April 2 Mail 1 Mail ad- ad per steamship steamship iron from om China con- con tain ain parJI particulars ulai of a disaster to a 3 Chi Chi- hi- hi owned nese steam stem launch i in tie the river fiver bear Inear near Hanoi involving a a a- serious loss o of alfe The launch Kwang Pa left NamIn Nam- Nam In for Hanoi having on board Madame the wife of an an inspector of the guards who was lying sick Inthe in the Luessen hospital in Hanoi their Infant inchild infant in- in fant child chUd and over Chinese gers ers 55 The steamer collided near Canton Canton Canton Can Can- ton with a passenger boat over peo peo- 1 jile le being drowned S A theatre built of bamboo and mats In n the village of Kun lu Iu Pun district China was set on fire on March larch during the progress of ot a performance and nd nd over people lost os their lives Po t bt t t IP RECENT L LOSSES OF OP LIFE 85 t 5 IN IK CHINA AND JAP JAPAN V. V S 'S V. V By sinking of launch ch scoBy 8 t By collision at Canton U. U i L iR R soldiers frozen S 81 0 St t Burned t death 1 In theatre 4 t t b Total S L. L 1060 11 H P- P tt V P- P PP P- P B tt ft V. V It K Japanese newspapers state that forty forty- two of the i fated IL-fated fated detachment detach detach- ment of Japanese overtaken b by p. p blizzard are not accounted for The tec record rd stands this according to journals Seventeen S rescued o of whom 12 survived bodies found of which 4 have not been identified 42 remain to tobe tobe tobe be found among among- ng them being 4 officers Total |