(From the Daily Press of the 28th wit.)
SERIOUS AFFRAY IN HONGKONG WATERS, Yesterday information was given to the Hongkong Police of a most serious attack on ten Hongkong fishermen in Taiwanho Bay, which is between Victoria and Aberdeen. The men were fishing from a couple of boats on Wednesday morning when seven unlicensed boats, crowded with men, went up to them and endeavoured fish in Hongkong waters. This illegal act was promptly resented by the licensed fishermen, whereupon the unlicensed men, who came from the mainland, got alongside the two boats and unmercifully assaulted the occupants with bamboos. The Hongkong men tried hard to beat their assailants off, but the fight lasted half an hour, during which time most of the ten men' were more or less injured. The attacking party then hurried away to the mainland and have not been heard of since. Of the Hongkong fishermen four were so seriously injured that they had to be sent to the Government Civil Hospital, where they are detained. The police are in-quiting into the outrave.
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