... 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 ...

... 14 the 9th Air Rescue Group of the United States Air Force announced that the area in which the lost Lif(master, with fiftynine air force personnel aboard, had apparently come to grief had been thoroughly searched, but that, nevertheless, the search was to continue. There has not at the time of writing been any sign ffIBaBSB^BSE g-. llr I—— ■ THE SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS OF THE LOST AMERICAN ...