ATTACK BY CHINESE PIRATES
BRITISH SHIP ESCAPES (N.Z. Press Association— Copyngm. HONG KONG, June 22. When the shin reached Hong Kong today, Captain Harold Goddard, master of the 3560-ton British steamer Wingsang, reported that his vessel had been attacked by Chinese pirates. Captain Goddard flashed . a radio signal saying that an unidentified junk was spraying him with machine-gun fire when the Wingsang was in the Straits of Formosa, about 280 miles north-west of Hong Kong. He said today that only two bullets hit the Wingsang. He told the crew to take cover, and he steamed away.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27074, 24 June 1953, Page 11
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