CHINESE FIRE UPON BRITISH WARSHIP.
ONE BLUE-JACKET RECEIVES WOUND. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh t.) HONG KONG, December 17. H.M.S. Seamew, while on patrol duty in a river near Nanking, was fired on by Kwangsi rebels. One bluejacket was wounded.. The seamen returned the fire, but the effect was not stated. British naval wireless messages report a recrudescence of firing on merchant ships on the Yangtsze. The steamer Ipingiling, owned by the Yangtsze Rapids Company came under heavy fire forty-six miles above Ichang The report did not mention any damage.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18947, 18 December 1929, Page 1
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