The Archive · 1926

Foochow Navy Joins the South

Cantonese Seaplane Flies Over Pagoda Anchorage Foochow, Dee. 10. joined the Cantonese side and the Tung Chi and the gunboats were anchored closer to the battlefield jand the old ship fired about four shots and a gunboat one shot, Northern Prisoners About the fighting on shore we Jcould not get any news. The navy General Chang Yi's troops sur-Jcaptured many "prisoners" as they 55q|tendered to the Cantonese I night, [called the Northern soldiers, who the main condition being i arrived from Chinghua and' were tion into the Cantonese disarmed by sailors. army.—One group Reuter. soldiers at Mamoi (Pagoda An. chorage) was also disarmed. All "prisoners" will be transported to Frow 4 Comrsronoexr Shanghai.

The str. Fooching was! the first ship on which naval offi-Pagoda Anchorage, Dec. 3. Ciatg and about 400 Northern On the morning of November 30, Southern troops approached Foo.

Jsoldiers departed and on the morning of December 3, on junks along-chow and fighting occurred not s0 Jside the above mentioned steamer, far from Pagoda Anchorage from sailors enjoyed themselves by tak-where we could distinctly hear ing away the uniform caps from the sounds of guns. The same morning S¢ldicrs' heads and throwing them 2 Cantonese seaplane made two cir-|0verboard. cles, about 2,000 feet above Pagoda On December 2, the C.M.S. Hsi Anchorage and set its course to-Chi arrived with 600 or 700 soldiers ward the battle field. The local of Sun's army, but the local naval part of the Chinese navy, which officials did not allow them to land! Jconsisted of the isser Haichow,|and obviously the soldiers were dis-the old training ship Tung Chi, two armed and -sent as "prisoners" four transports, aback to Shanghai, Tittle more than a week ago de-'On December 1 Japanese des-clared neutrality, but on that mornltroyer No. 14 arrived and on De-ing the Tung Chi and the gunboats cember 3 A. destroyer No. 7 were active, The men-of-war arrived,

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