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BRITISH TUG SEIZED BV JAPANESE GUARD LEAVES ON RESCUE DUTY STRIKE OF DOOMED BATTALION BROKEN SHANGHAI, August 16. The British tug Victoria which was seized by a Japanese armed guard at Tungchow Island has not yet been released. The Japanese are sending a destroyer to investigate. The guard from the gunboat Scarab, which went to the rescue, has temporarily left the Victoria in order to assist in the rescue of the German coaster Hansa, which is sinking in the Whangpoo River, after a collision in a hurricane with the anchored British ship Tungwo. It is believed that 150 Chinese passengers have been drowned. A unit of White Russians is guarding the men of the Chinese “doomed battalion,” who went on hunger strike, demanding to be allowed to return to the Chinese army. The officers of the battalion have now broken the strike, but the men are adamant and the situation is tense.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 5
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