Chankiakong' in the 'Lower: Yanga Designating the spot as being nar the" spokesman went on to say ihe attack, which he charaeterfed'
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Were engaged against Chinese gue while an ofr Sd ton ins. the attack from the s fae pu. he added, was simultantouy the fire from the guerilla sisted of five or sig rie shots ive minutes later, he coninid, the vessel was about to proceed Seg: Aream, fire again "edge from th Whangou=there were 40 or 8 rouns of rile and machine-gun fr. tea the sound of the shots It. i blows that the machine gun utilized wars Bren weapon, made in Gzechoslora Assumptions Untenable From the position of the contest forces, it was further stated, it wis impossible that bullets from the Cliese forces could have at the vessel. Ars people on the sh! gould not have Seen the guerils "Therefore," he reiterated, "it: strange that fire from the ship fying the British merchant flag should have {heen directed into the backs of Jap anese soldiers, who were facing south "The assumption that shots "were believed to have been fired: from tie ship as a hallucination or from excl: ment' while under fire is untenable. The action is regarded with ut mat regret by the Japanese forces," the spokesman concluded,
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