British naval vessel is shipwrecked on the Chinese coast with a very heavy loss of life

On the Chinese coast, near present-day Yantai, H.M.S. Racehorse, a Royal Navy dispatch-boat carrying messages from Shanghai, ran agound on the coast in heavy fog at around eight o'clock in the evening. A storm then struck and began to smash the vessel to pieces and through the night ninety-nine of the 108-man crew were drowned or died of exposure in the cold seas. (By John Osborne)