U, S. Sailors in Fracas with Japanese: Alleged Search for a Fight: Six Sailors Injured The story of a pitched battle between American bluejackets and a mixed crowd of Japanese sailors and civilians in Hongkew on Sunday night was told in the U.S. Court on Monday, when Petty Officer E. Babcock, Seaman S. J. Christian and Gunner's Mate Oussel Clark were charged before Mr. F. J.
Commissioner, with creating a disturbance. he former
ing F.P.C. Spurgeon by striking further charged with assault-him on the head with a beer bottle.
Six sailors from the U.S.S. Huron were seriously injured, and are suffering from knife wounds, while the man Clark, who was taken to the General Hospital, is reported to be in a precarious condition.
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