For a spell the Japanese navy id. off" sinking small boats on the sea, buy now that they have brought a large naval force to -Kwangtung they have renewed their policy of ruthlessly destroying every vessel encountered, large or small. Seventy Ashermen who put out to sea recently have failed to return, Again five rice beals were coming up the coast from Lulchow in southeastern Kwangtung, bound for Kongmoon, when they' were brought to @ halt by warning shels, A destroyer came and from the shore the sight of the burning hulks could be plitinly seen, Petrol hind 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 wet ped {o sink the s. Kamsh boat Wuchow-bound from Macao, That she flow the Portuguese flay 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 -machineguns, the next day it was an Asiatic. Petroleum launch that was singled out for a murderous attack, The 'Union Jack had been painted on the upper deck to catch the eye of Javiators who might otherwise mis-ake it for a Chinese ship, but for all that two bombs hit it. By taking to the water, and swimming the few Jescaped, but the British boat' went down in a matter of seconds.
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