JAPANESE TRANSPORT
SUNK BY CHINESE BATTERIES (Rpcd 6.30 p.m.) Chungking. Feb. 15. A Japanese transport with lead, gasoline and rice from the South Sea was sunk by Chinese shore batteries off Fukien on February 8 after being disabled by a mine on January 30. A The Central News says that Chinese shore units put out to the ship and took prisoner 32 Formosan seamen and killed a number aboard. A Japanese gunboat on February 6 attempted to prevent the Chinese from salvaging the ship’s cargo, but was driven off. Two days later the Chinese shelled and sank the transport.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 39, 17 February 1943, Page 5
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