SINKING OF JUNKS
Inquiry Opens at Hongkong HOKGKONG, Oct.. 18. The inquiry into the shiking of the Chinese Junks on September 22 was opened. The Japanese consul-general iguored an invitation to attend. Fourteen survirors jvho were witnesses were unable to swear that the Japanese submarine was Japanese. The exhibits includCd shrapnel splinters and bullets extracted from wounded. Giving Nevidence at the inquiry into the sinking of the junks, two ownera described tehort-range attacks by a twogun submarine. The crew wore uniforms like the Japanese. Later the attackers machine-gunned 17 survivors in a sampan, killing ninet i - - - —
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 23, 20 October 1937, Page 5
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