The Archive · 1932

Hankow, Dee. 3

Fuller details are_now available from the Yangtze Rapids Steamship Company regarding the firing on the steamer Iping of that com-Pany while she was coming down river, It "is now established that the vessel was under fire 30 miles below

/No one on board was killed and only Changing, and) not below ichang. one Chinese cabin boy was injured, his wounds being slight.

It was not the "Iping which was being fired at. The shots were from the bank at a steamer named Fookyuen and, it chanced that the Iping on her course down river passed through the line of fire—

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