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TAISHAN STOPPED BY DESTROYER
FIVE SHOTS, APPARENTLY FIRED AS WARNING
THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOÀT COMPANY'S S.S. TAISHAN WAS STOPPED BY WARNING SHOTS FIRED BY A JAPANESE DESTROYER OFF. MACHAU EARLY THIS MORNING, BOARDED BY A JAPANESE NAVAL OFFICER AND FOUR SEAMEN, AND PERMITED TO CON- TINUE HER VOYAGE AFTER EXAMINATION OF HER PAPERS AND OTHER FORMALITIES HAD BEEN COMPLETED.
Captain Reports appear to conflict regarding the incident. Pritchard states that as far as he was aware only one shot was fired. Passengers that they heard five shots.
CAPTAIN'S REPORT
A report by Capt. Pritchard, mas ter of the s.s. Taishan, states that while that vessel was proceeding
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was stopped by the fring of a shot and the rays of a searchlight being shone on her in the vicinity of Ma- chau at 3.45 am.
44. warship was noticed. Shortly afterwards, a Japanese naval or marine officer arrived with five rat- ings and boarded.
The officer stating that the Tai- shan was a Chinese vessel flying the British, flag, insisted on examining the ship's papers.
LETTER SENT
Capt. Pritchard, accordingly pro duced the manifests and ships re- gistration papers and after an e amination the Japanese officer re- quested that he write a letter to the commanding officer of the warship explaining that the Taishan was Bri- tish and was owned by an old Hong Kong Company.
After this order had been com- plied with, the officer apologised for the mistake they had made, and left
MR.D.B.EVANS IN FORCED LANDING
While fying solo in the Far plane East Aviation school VRHCI, Mr. D. B. Evans, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Mas- ter, made a forced landing in some- fields one and a half miles west of the Ping Shan Police Station in Shek Po Village Mr. Erans was not injured but the plane was damaged.
TYPHOON WARNINGS
The following typhoon warnings were received from the Manila Ob- ervatory at 9.30 am, this morning.
Typhoon in about longitude 132 degrees east and latitude 23 degrees forth north-eastward.
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2. Typhoon in about longitude
125 degrees east and latitude 18 degrees north moving north.
The Taishan proceeded on her U.S. PROTEST
voyage at b.43 and arrived in Hong
Kong on schedule. Capt. Pritchard IN asserts that all the proceedings were carried through with great courtesy.
FIVE SHOTS FIRED
the
Five shots were fired by the Japanese warship which stopped the Taishan in the early hours of this morning off Machau.
This
aled "China Mail this morning Mrs. Betty Thomson, the whe of an American dentist, was a passenger on the vessel Mrs. Thomson told how thos on board were roused from sleep at about 2.45 this morning, by the sound of gunfire.
Considerable mystery ·sur· rounds the firing, which apparently not directed at the but may have been a warning to stop.
the Taishan had hove rchlight from the on her a boat destroyer with
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United States authorities have protested against occupation. by Japanese troops of the buildings of the Seventh Day Adventist Mis sion in Yangisepoo. — Reuter,
Taikoo Accident
recting a staging in
8.3.urbo in the Taiko esterday, Wo Kan, aged 40, lost his footing and fell from a height of 30 feet. He was admit- ted to the Queen Mary Hospital rom a fractured skull
serious condition
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Steam Ship Shirala due for
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