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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
JAPANESE NAVY ACTS NEAR H.K. Junkmen's Grim Stories of Boats Sett
LOCAL LAUNCH CREW
MACHINE-GUNNED
BARBARISM IN CHINESE WATERS
Junks attacked, dismasted and set adrift
without oars or sails or any other means of propul- sion with women and children on board;
JAPANESE
BOMB FLOOD
REFUGEES AT KIUKIANG
Shanghai, Today,
bridges in this region.
-POLICE WARN LOCAL JUNKS
The "China Mail” understands that the police have issued ad- vice to Hong Kong fishing and trading junks. against travelling out of British waters.
peasants by ruthless bombing.
Squadrons of
suddenly appeared town.
Japa
planes
attacked the
Ruthless shelling and machine-gunning of
Borabs and machine gun fire from The Japanese air force, extremely the air caused a veritable panic non-combatants who in fear attempt to escape: active yesterday carried out among the unfortunate Chinese flee-
numerous raids over important ing from the flooded districts. Such grim stories as these concerning Japan-towns and railway junctions in the ese naval activities within the immediate vicinity Yangtse Valley, destroying many of Hong Kong waters, were graphically related Traffic on the Yangtse River; con- to "China Mail" representatives this morning by tinues to run as usual, in spite of the victims of Japanese inhumanity, who somehow Kiukiang, in Kiangsi, has been Nanking, and Shanghai is now res managed to escape.
inundated by flood waters, and tricted to night traffic over side Japanese planes added to the horror lines, and a journey which normally
evacuation of thousands of (Continued on Page 24)
raids
The stories given below con- Before they left they chopped off | of cern but three incidents among the junk's masts. destroyed every many. What is the fate of others inch of sail on board and smashed who have not returned to tell the oars. their tale can only be conjectur Completing their destructive work, they then left and sailed away in an easterly direction.
ed.
Two warships were apparently needed to stop Lai Kan, master of a fishing junk, from carrying out his occupation.
Lai Kan managed eventually to rig some sort of a sail from batch covers and let the boat sail before the wind, his intention being to get laway as quickly as possible fear- He sailed from San Mi at about ing that the Japanese might ra 8.p.m. on Sunday on a fishing trip turn and sink the boat.
TWENTY BOARD BOAT
On board the junk were three other fisher men, his wife and three chil-
dren.
nesday.
ADRIFT
Drifting blindly, throughout the day and the night, he met junk No. Shortly after 5 am on Monday15HW shortly after dawn on Wed- morning when he was about 15) miles from San Mi, he saw two warships flying Japanese flags tear through the water towards his junk
The master of that junk volun- teered to tow his boat to Hong Kong and they arrived in the har bour late in the afternoon and put into Shaukiwan Bay.
FOUR CHILDREN ON BOARD Another victim was Ho Chi-tat,
About 20 Japanese marines board- ed. One of them, who spoke Chinese, questioned him as regards his occupation. They also exhibited a piece of paper on which were a fisherman of the Hoi Fung Dis- written some characters, but he, trict, who told the "Cha Mail” being uneducated, was not able to that about 6 am. on Monday, a read it
RECKING
rent about
Japanese wanhip came alongside his boat which was lying off Kung at San Mi
After threatening the the with bayonets and rifes,
boatmen
(Continued on Page 24)
THREE SHOT DOWN
Chinese claim that Chinese ursuit planes shot down three. pazese bombers which participat- in a rail over Nanking yesterday. Railway communication between
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