The Archive · 1934

PUNISHMENT FOR HAI YING 'SMUGGLERS

Canton, Nov. 12, Admiral Chang Tse-ying, commons der of the Canton Fleet, petitioned the South-west Political Council to-da urging severe punishment for the men involved in the Hai Ying affair.

The Hai Ying, whicn was suspected of being engaged in smuggling activities, was fired on and badly damaged provincial anti-smuggling vessel. fon November 5 about 200 miles south of Canton. Thirty-two officers and men of the patrol boat were sub sequently brought back to Canton under military guard.

The dismissal of Mr. Pao Ying-chung, Director of the Bureau of Fisheries of the Provincial Reconstruction Department, to which the patrol boat was originally attached, has already been ordered by the Kuangtung Government as a result of the affair—Reuter.

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