FISHING FLEET SUNK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 5

FISHING FLEET SUNK

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* ■ ■ v w- - ^ Merciless Attack by Japanese Submarine WOUNDED LEFT TO DROWN

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(Eeeeived 28, 8.45 a.m.) HONGKONG, Sept. 27. The German liner Scharnhorst today landed ten Chinese fishermen here. They state that they are snrvivors of a fishing fleet manned by 300 men Which a Japanese submarine attaeked of£ Cheeiongkau ^oint on Septefaber 22, from a distance of 20Q yards, mercilessly sinkiug the jnnks ifi rotation, and leaving the wounded and dying nelplessly struggling in the water. On,e jnnk contrived to hoist itg sails and escape, but as several of the crew were wounded the craft floated without direction for five days before the Scharnhorst came \ip, The sufvivprs have been adnjittQd to bospitai, suffering from exposure. The number dead ia not known. Tbe authorities have begun an offi«a! ioquiry, as soqie pf the juukg have been registeyed m Ilongkong, and. thereforo, rank as EritishLater: Three of those rescued aro critically wounded. It is believed that the dead total 290. The survxvors relate pitiful stories of wounded women and children truggling in the water while the sub' marino continued the slaughter. » '