We regret to record the wreck of the British cruiser
Bedford' in the Straits of Korea. The Bedford,' an armoured cruiser of 9,800 tons and with a speed of 221 knots, launched in 1901, and attached to the China Station since 1907, while carrying out her full-speed trials on Sunday grounded on the Semarang rocks off the island of Quelpart, about sixty miles S.S.E. of the most southerly point of Korea, and eighteen men—fifteen of them stokers—were drowned by the inrush of water. The remaining officers and men were taken off the ship, which is lying in a bad position, the- Commander-in-Chief of the China Station having reported. that there is very little chance of salving the ship; but later telegrams state that salving ocr rations are
in progress. A message of condolence has been forwarded to the Admiralty by the Japanese Minister of Marine, who adds the assurance that the Japanese Navy are doing their utmost to render assistance.
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