Dec. 25, 1948 NEWS FROM ABROAD: A BERLIN EXPLOSION; AND MARITIME EVENTS RECORDED BY CAMERA. ONE OF THE GREATEST ..
... DISASTERS MODERN HISTORY (ABOVE) THE 2100-TON STEAMER KIAyGTA, WHICH SANK THE CHINA SEA ON DECEMBER 4 AFTER AN EXPLOSION AND (RIGHT) THE ILL-FATED KIANGTA'B FUNNEL AND SUPERSTRUCTURE SHOWING ABOVE THE SURFACE AT THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER. On December 4 the 2100-ton steamer Kiangya, carrying Chinese refugees from Shanghai to Ningpo, sank in the China Sea 50 miles south of Shanghai following an ...