"HEAVE TO, OR I FIRE."—A picture taken from the liner Ranpura as the picket boat from a Japanese cruiser was approaching to examine her papers. The Ranpura was ordered to stop when less than a mile outside Hong Kong territorial waters. This was the first of a series of pinpricks against Britain recently instituted by the Japanese.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 226, 22 June 1939, Page 7
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57"HEAVE TO, OR I FIRE."—A picture taken from the liner Ranpura as the picket boat from a Japanese cruiser was approaching to examine her papers. The Ranpura was ordered to stop when less than a mile outside Hong Kong territorial waters. This was the first of a series of pinpricks against Britain recently instituted by the Japanese. Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 226, 22 June 1939, Page 7
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