The action was deliber There can be no question of this because Signals were sent to the soldiers by. persons on board a steamship, fying the Kuomintang fag, anchored downstream from the scene. As} further evidence of official, cognizance of the act, the party as-signalman resumed his operations still in a vigorous manner. Before the party had got from the zone of fire they saw also, through their binoculars, uniformed sailors leave the Cantonese warship and make several trips back and forth to the steamship. The picnickers contend that all parties were aware of who constituted the passengers on the Taunch because they could see men fon the warship who watched their actions through marine telescopes which are more powerful glasses the binoculars which they, carried,
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