For a spell the Japanese navy "laid off" sinking small boats on the sea, but now that they have brought a large naval force to Kwangtung they have renewed their policy of ruthlessly destroying vessel encountered, large or small. Seventy sherman who put out to sea recently have failed to return. Again five rice boats were coming up the coast from ' Luichow in southeastern Kwangtung; bound for Kongmoon, when they were brought to a halt by warning shots. A destroyer came up and from the shore the sight of the burning hulks could be plainly seen. Petrol had been poured over the craft to make their destruction speedy and certain. There is slight chance that the lives of the crew were spared Not long ago 21 bombs w aropped to sink the s. Kamshan, river boat Wuchow-bound from M; That she flew the Portuguese flag from her masthead, and had the same design painted on her upper works made not the slightest difference to the Japanese pilots. It was no fault of the aviators that every bomb missed. But nine passengers were wounded when the pilots opened up with their machine-guns On the next day it was an Asiatic Petroleum launch thai out for a murderous Union Jack had been painted on the upper deck to catch the eye of aviators who might otherwise mistake it for a Chinese ship, but for all that two bombs hit it. By taking to the water, and swimming the few escaped, but the British boat went own in a matter of seconds
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