THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 1988.
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CAPTAIN CRAWLEY KILLED BY MACHINE-GUN BULLETS Shot When Making Way Ashore After Bombing
Gnat Commander's JAPAN TRYING
Report On Yangtse Affair
Hankow, To-day.
TO LEAVE SHANGHAI
HIGH AND DRY?
LONDON, TO-DAY.
DR. HODZA'S EXPLANATION
Prague, To-day.
The conference between the Czecho-Slovakian Premier Dr. Milan Hodza, and the represen- H.M.S. Gnat, which was immediately despatched
tatives of the Sudeten German upon the receipt of the news of the bombing of
Party, Herr Ernst Kundt and Dr. the Chinese Customs Cruiser "Chiangsing" "TIMES," MR. EDWARD MAC served to shed considerable light IN A LETTER TO THE Alfred Rosche, yesterday afternoon and the resultant deaths of Captain J. G. C. KAY, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF on the further progress of negotia- Crawley, the commanding officer, the Chinese OF COMMERCE, SAYS WITH Government and the Sudeten Ger-
THE SHANGHAI CHAMBER second engineer and a boat-boy, returned to REGARD TO THE REFUSAL man Party. Hankow yesterday afternoon with the three OF THE JAPANESE MILITARY Dr. Hodza utilized the occasion bodies which were carried ashore by coolies. Captain Crawley's body was taken to the Interna-
tional Hospital.
Lieut.-Commander E. Neville,] commanding officer of H.M.S.
Gnat, interviewed by Reuter, said JAPANESE GIVE that six Japanese planes bomb ed the Customs Cruiser, Chiang-
sing, which was anchored along
side a light vessel, but failed to register a hit.
USUAL VERSION
tions between the Czecho-Slovakian
AUTHORITIES TO ALLOW THE WHANGPOO CONSER- submitted to him on July 29th and for answering several questions VANCY BOARD TO CONTINUE declared that the paragraphs of the DREDGING THE RIVER BE-Nationalities Statute dealing with TWEEN WOOSUNG AND the language law and self-ad- SHANGHAI:
ministration which were Bed "Deep draught vessels, mostly to the Sudeten Germans June British and American, will soon 30th and July 28th were not to be be unable to reach port."
regarded as final and unchangeable but merely as a basis for negotia- tions.
OF AIR BATTLE calls.
He understands that the Cana- dian Pacific and President. liners have already intimated their in- tention to omit their Shanghai Dr. Hodza emphasised that: the Government opposed the Sudeten No reason has been advanced German demand for a complete Captain Crawley immediately
by the Japanese, Mr. Mackay solution without delay and still in- crossed the river and beached the
Hankow, To-day. continues, for their action sists upon its original plan of deal- ship on the north bank of the
which, with the fighting area ing with the pargraphs one by one Yangtse, but the vessel shortly Chinese Aviation Headquarters now far removed from Shanghai, until an ultimate solution has been afterwards suffered a direct hit claim that 12 Japanese planes, cannot be justified.
arrived at. Pursuing this course, by a bomb and was completely comprising of 11 pursuit planes
The Japanese may have in the Government will consider those gutted.
view the development of Woosung points first in which there are least Captain Crawley and the two and one bomber were shot down as a port to cater for the valu- differences between the pr Chinese are believed to have been yesterday morning by Chinese a able export and import trade of of the Government, and those of th
"German Party killed by machinegun bullets while they were making their yesterday morning by Chinese the Yangtse with northern and Sudeten
southern ports, leaving Shanghai Ocean. aircraft who intercepted a group high and dry. way ashore.
The Naval doctor reports that of 70 Japanese machines heading Captain Crawley's death was due towards Hankow. to machinegunning.
:
It is also possible that they may wish to develop Tsingtao as such a port.
that the British Ambassador in The Chinese admit the loss of
In either case, if they can ren- Tokyo should be invited to ask SHOT WHEN WADING
six machines, but the Japanese der the Whangpoo un-navigable the Japanese Foreign Minister The theory is advanced that it officially claim to have shot to deep draught vessels, they will what objection there is to the isolate Shanghai and millions of Board carrying on the vital work was possible that Captain Crawley down 32 Chinese planes and say pounds of British capital will be of dredging the Whangpoo and was shot while wading ashore, as that there are only two Japan-lost.
he should accept no reply with it now transpires that his -body
NO PREVARICATION savours of prevarication. floated a short way down-river and
Mr. Mackay adds in conclusion ter. was brought back and beached alongside the vessel by Chinese fisherman.
ese planes missing.
Reuter.
EVIAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE
London, To-day.
H.M.S. Gnat also had an excit. ing experience when Japanese planes flew overhead. One of the a stone's- planes passed within throw of the bridge. Fortunately, however, the red, white and blue colours were prominently display. ed and the Japanese machines
The Permanent International Re- proceeded on their way without further incidents.
fugees Committee, founded in con-
The news
of Captain Crawley's sequence of the decisions of the death was conveyed to his wife who Congress of Evian, met at the For- was deeply shocked and had to be eign Office yesterday with Lord rushed to the hospital Immediately. Winterton in the chair.
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