CRIPPLED LINER ATTACK

Chronicle (Levin), 23 June 1949, Page 5

CRIPPLED LINER ATTACK

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Cost Of Repairs To Anchises Esfunated At £186,000

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Recelve'd Tkursday, 10.10 a.m. HONG KONG, .June 22. Following a seeond attack by & .Nsationa^st' plane -today on tlie BritisH vessel Anehises, (Captaiin J. E. "Wiats-Jn said that ihe expacted the attack to be continued tomorrow. Today1 's attaek was made while the Aaichises was lying helpless in the Whangpoo River, aboat seven miles fr.om Shanghai. Gaptam Watson intends askin.g the authoicita.es to permit hina to maanta'in a skeleton ccew aboard aird will try to gei the -other men ashore. He said : "It is impossible to imagine why w:e -were attacked, We've no military va*ue, This is certainly beyond a nuisance." Captain Watson added that the Nationalist plane .flew l'ow to machine-gun the ship today. The Anchiisgs was sd seriously damaged in the firs.t .attack yes-' terday that •Captain Watson believes the r.epairs will cost about £18.6,000 and take tWo mdnths to' complete. The main damage • was. in the engine-room, where there is a 10-foot hole in the side. - All toreign ships en route to Shanghai have been ordered by radio to return to Hong jKong following the Anehises incident, and vessels due to leave Hong Kong today have cancelled their sailings.