MILITARY TRANSPORT ASHORE
TOWED OFF BY GUNBOAT
FIRED ON BY REDS (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 6th January, 8.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, sth January. The river gunboat H.M.S. Mantis towed off a Chinese military transport ashore on a sandbank near Temple Hill, which is the bandit-ridden section in the middle of the Yangtze, when in imminent danger of attack by Reds, who the day before heavily fired on the Mantis. The Mantis replied, inflicting many Red casualties. Gunboats are daily engaging Communists in this section of the river.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 January 1931, Page 5
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