CHINESE BATTERIES FIRE ON FRENCH WARSHIPS
BOTH SUFFER CASUALTIES Received Thursday, 8.20 p.m. CHUNGKING, March 7. Pive French warships homharded Chinese troops at Haiphong yesterday, says the Central News. The j shore batteries replied and both sides suffered casualties in a hot exchange. T«he fighting continued until hoon when the warships withdrew, leaving huge fires ffom a blasted ammunition | dump. i An Associated Press correspondent j ahoard the French cruiser Emile j Bertin, off Haiphong, cables that the j coastal hatteries opened fire on the | Emile Bertin and other French war- j ships cruising off the ; entrance to j Haiphong Harbour, awaiting Chinese I; permission to land a force of 20,000 J troops. The shells missed the Emile j Bertin by more than a mile, hut scored hits and casualties on the other warships.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1946, Page 5
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