SCENE OF CARNAGE
GUN-SWEPT VESSEL WARFARE IN CHINA (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Received December 5, 11 a.m.) ' SHANGHAI, Dec. 4. • : A small Chinese steamer carrying troops, adherents of General lan Hsiang, was approaching Chungking when soldiers belonging to a rival general machine gunned it from the river bank, riddling the vessel and sweeping the crowded decks. The ship reached Hankow a ghast.y sight, her alleyways running with blood • and over 200 dead spread about the deck 3.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 5
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