KILLED BY JAPANESE
BRITISH CUSTOMS OFFICER IN CHINA REVENUE CRUISER BOMBED & SET ON FIRE. GUNBOAT SENT TO SCENE. HNKOW, August 3. Mr P. G. Crawley, Dublin, commander of the Chinese Customs cruiser Chianghsing, also the second engineer, and a boat boy were killed when the vessel was bombed and set on fire by six Japanese seaplanes 36 miles from Hankow today. The gunboat Gnat has gone to the scene. The survivors have been picked up by a junk. The aerodrome and railway warehouses were attacked by 18 bombers and 10 fighters today as part of the Japanese offensive along the Yangtse, whereby it is hoped to capture Hankow at the earliest possible moment in view of the Russian crisis and to force the Chinese back to the upper reaches of the Yangtse. The Chinese have cut the dykes and flooded vast areas of farmlands in Yuhu.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1938, Page 7
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