After the launch had been hoisted partly out of the water by means of wire slung around her hull, one of the divers descended a Indder affixed to the River Police Jaunch, and slung {wo more substantial supports found the launch, She was then hauled out up to her water line, and towed away." A Japanese naval launch rived' to assist in the operations in the course of the morning, A large crowd of both foreigners and Chinese gathered on The Bund foreshore, The launch, about 48 fect length, was new about a year before the war started, and was fitted with two torpedo racks, alllxed to the rear of the craft, and a couple of machine-guns, judging by the bate tered emplacements which were still visible on the boat when she made liber appearance above the waters of the Whangpoo yesterday "morning. The boat was considerably damaged, her stern being battered in, the fore part being split right across, and all her superstructure wrecked, The wheel lay crazily on top of the remains of the superstructure, while the instruments " board was " also angled up in the wreckage.
As one of the onlookers remarked, was strange to see a British-built motor Munch of the Chinese Navy being hauled to the surface by Japanese using a German crane, ith The powerful coastal motor launch which fired a torpedo at H.lWJ.M.S. by a party of Japanese who used a floating crane
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