ATTACKS ON FISHING BOATS
EXPLANATION WANTED BY JAPAN [United Pighh Ahhucihi ioii - U.v Elepiri''ivimjrnidi (’iM'vrlshil TOKIO, 17th October. \ The Foreign Office Spokesman. Mr I Tatsuo Kavvai, said an official explanation was being demanded from the Netherlands Government of the incidents in the Dutch East Indies, where a warplane machine-gunned Japanese fishing boats. Japanese consular reports showed I that while of! Sumatra on 30lh September, a plane from the warship Flores riddled the Tokuei Muru with 700 bullets, killing two of the crew and wounding two. The suspicion that the j vessel was poaching was found to be ; groundless and it was released on oth October. The next incident occurred oil Natuna Archipelago on 9th October, when a plane machine-gunned the Taishin j Maru, wounding two. Such action was | unwarranted because the vessel was; only getting water. However, it is still S being detained,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 October 1937, Page 5
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