PIRACY & MURDER
CHARGE AGAINST JAPANESE TRAWLER CHINESE FISHING JUNK SUNK. GRIM STORY TOLD BY BOY SURVIVORS. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. (Recd This Day, 11.15 a.m.) London, April 12. The “Daily Telegraph's” Hong Kong correspondent says two boys, aged twelve and nine, the sole survivors of a family of twelve living on a Hong Kong junk, declare that a Japanese trawler No 11 drew alongside the junk and seized her cargo of fish. The trawler then drew off and sank the junk by a shell. The survivors clung to wreckage until they were rescued.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1938, Page 8
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