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Show DESTROYER UNDER FIRE 0FJ1ESE PILLSBURY IS TARGET, BUT NO DAMAGE TO SHIP OR INJURY TO CREW IS FOUND Firing on Vessels In River Has Been Noted Several Times Recently Shanghai The United States destroyer de-stroyer Pillsbury was fired on by the Chinese in Nanking. Presumably no damage was inflicted as no mention ot injury to members of the crew or ship was made when first reports of the incident reached here. Firing on ships in the Yangtse river off Nannking has been reported several sev-eral times recently. Shanghai dispatches dis-patches said an American and a British Brit-ish destroyer and a British steamer were shot at the day before. Wireless dispatch from Hankow states that the nationalist government claims that Feng Yu-Hsiang, the so-called so-called Christian general allied with the Hankow nationalists, has captured Honan Fu, 110 miles west of Kaifang. If the reported capture of Honan Fu is true, it looms as an important victory vic-tory for the Hankow nationalists. Wu Pej-Fu, northern marshal and long prominent in Chinese affairs, has had iiis chief base near Nonan Fu. He has been in retirement foe some time, but recent military activity on bis part has been reported. Marshal Wu and General Feng have China and each for a time was virtuo-long virtuo-long been rivals for power in northern China and each for a time was virtually virtu-ally the power that dictated the affairs of the Peking government. |