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Show oo GREAT LINER Shanghai, March 31 The big trans-Pacific trans-Pacific passenger steamer Chlyo Maru grounded in a fog at 4 35 this morning on one of the I ema islands south of Hong Kong. Nine tugboats and launches from British torpedo boat destroyers have gone to her assistant, as-sistant, and are taking off her 299 passengers from San Francisco and Manila. " The Chiyo Maru owned by the Toyo Kisen Kabushiki Kalsha of Yokohama Yoko-hama is a vessel of 13,431 tons gross, Is 55S feet long, Gl feet beam and was constructed In 1908 at Nagasaki. She left San Francisco on March 2 March 18 and left that port for Hong Kong. San Francisco, March 31. The Chlyo Maru is one of the largest vessels ves-sels on the trans-Pacific runs and is part of the Toyo Kisen Kabushiki fleet. She sailed from here March 2 and reached Honolulu March 8 and Yokohama March 17. She is of 13,-431 13,-431 tons gross registry and was built in 1908 at Nagasaki. Toyo Kisen Kalsha officials here had-no information as to the accident. The Chiyo Maru commanded by Captain Cap-tain Ernst Bent who regularly took her out carried her usual crew, L. E Bemis, the company's agent said. The Chiyo already had touched at Honolulu, Yokohama and other Japanese Jap-anese ports and Manila, so that all passengers from continental United States except those bound for Hong Kong had left the ship. Among the Chlyo's passengers for Hong Kong were Charles Wheeler, a Detroit publisher and his wife and D. G. Bellamore, an eastern automobile man. Mrs. D. G. Bellamore accompanied accom-panied her husband on the trip. The Tojo Kisen Kalsha passengers records here do not show the home cities of the Chlyo's passengers. |