Hongkong, Jan. 1
Four British' steamers were forced to flee at full speed downriver from Canton yesterday morning when Chinese guns of the Bocca Tigris forts fred on a Japanese armed trawler, it was learned here this morning.
British seamen saw Japanese troops in small boats attempting to land at Sanpanchau near the Chinese forts, 'The Japanese were protected by. the banks of the river, but they. were forced to retire in' their (avler although the boat did not appear to hays been hit, British steamer latee observed. a Japanese cruiser steaming in the Eeneral direction of Bocca Tigris, Chinese circles here professed ignorance of the attempted Japanese Janding—United Pres
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