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CHINESE ATTACK ON HOUSEBOAT. ENGLISHMAN WOUNDED. By Telegraph—Press .Association—Copyright Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received May 12. 10.30 a.m.) PEKIN, May 11. A message from Shanghai states that, a house-boat with two British subjects, Messrs Lawson Hall and Walker, and their wives and children aboard, was returning across the harbour from a pleasure trip just before nightfall. When nearing a Chinese gunboat, suddenly without warning, the latter fired a fusilade at the house-boat with rifles. Air Lawson Hall was wounded in the thigh. The British Consul-General entered a strong protest. Ho was informed that the shooting was the outcome of the crew of the gunboat becoming panic-stricken owing to a warning of an impending attack by an opposing faction. GUNBOAT CHIEF APOLOGISES. By Telegraph Press Association—Copyright Eeuter’s Telegrams (R ecei ved Mav 12. .11 a. m.) PEKIN, May 11. The commander of the gunboat called on the Consul-General and apologised for the shooting and announced his readiness to pay the hospital expenses of Air Lawson Hall, and the cost of repairs no the house-boat.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17535, 12 May 1925, Page 7
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