DELIBERATE ACT
KILLING OF BRITISH SUBJECT IN CHINA.
SHOT WHILE SCRAMBLING ASHORE.
(Recd This Day, 12.55 p.m.) SHANGHAI, August 3.
It is learned that Mr P. G. Crawley, commander of a Chinese Customs cruiser on the Yangtse, was killed by a machine-gun fire from a Japanese plane while he was scrambling ashore.
The killing of Mr Crawley, who was a British subject, and of the second engineer and a boy when the cruiser was bombed and set on fire by Japanese planes was reported • in an earlier cablegram.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1938, Page 8
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