Marking the first fatality among JJapanese newspapermen and camera men covering the South China opera-ions, INF." Suetaro. Hanabusa, 26, newsreel cameraman for the Domei News Agency, was shot and killed the West River yesterday after-oon, "His body has not been recovered.
While proceeding, from Samshui to Kowshuitsun, four kilometres to. the south-west on the West River, in Japanese military vessel _yesterday afternoon, Mr. Hanabusa ran into a violent barrage directed at the ship by "a band. of Chinese troops entrenched in hills near Hochowkani.
ing the engagement from unprotected. root of the vessel, he was Hit by a bullet in the chest. Dragged by "the weight of the portable camera. strapped to his. wrist, he fell backwards into the river, Attempts for his rescue were made immediately, but he was not located.
He. ig the fifth Domei stam mem ber, and the third newsreel camera man, 10 be killed since the outbreak fof the hostilities—Domei Hsu Shi-wen to Be Hupeh Governor
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