Chungking, Feb. 3.
An explanation for the sound of bomb explosions and gunfire said to have been heard on January 28 in Kwangchow Pay was furnished today by a Chinese dispatch.
A force' of Japanese, it says, attempted to effect a landing on that day at Meilv, a port on the south coast of Kwangchow Bay.
Motor boats from Japanese warships, off Mouming made soundings, the dispatch says, while a small body of marines landed at Meilu, but retired to their ships when they were engaged by the Chinese defenders.—Reuter.
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