Japanese naval authorities in South China on Monday opened an investigation into "Another case of misuse of a neutral flag by the Chinese," a spokesman for the ser-ice announced yesterday.
While pursuing a fleet of junks proceeding on the Pearl River near Canton, Japanese naval fliers. observed the Chinese crews lower the Chinese flags and raise the Portuguese flag, the spokesman said. The members of the crew were then seen abandoning their junks and scattering along the banks.
The aircraft did not bomb this convoy, because of the raising of the Portuguese flag, the spokesman said. However, another group of' junks g ammunition and military was bombed and destroyed, he Bombing operations were also carried out against the Hankow-Canton and Canton-Kowloon Railways, where traffic was interrupted, the spok man claimed. At Lini, several Chinese barracks were bombed and damaged, the officer stated,
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