The Archive · 1926

JAPANESE STEAMER

FIRED ON

Forced to Run the Gauntlet on the Upper Yangtze Tokyo, Aug. 6.

According to 2 communique issued by the Naval Department, the Nisshin Kisen Kaisha str. Unyo Maru was furiously fired upon by Chinese troops at Wanhsien, Fengtu, and Peichow in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River on her way to Chungehing, where she arrived on the evening of August 5. The firing between Fengtu and Peichow lasted more than an hour. One Chinese sailor was. seriously wounded, and damage inflicted on the hulk of the steamer, which was bespattered with bullet marks—Toho.

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