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Show i Cantonese Fire on British Ship Shanghai Reports to the Toho News agency from Hankow state that Cantonese troops fired on the British gunboat Dee as it was escorting a British merchant ship from Chiang toward Hankow. The incident took place last Thursday. The gunboat brought its three-inch guns into action, ac-tion, silencing the assailants. There were no casualties aboard the vessels. Sanghai considered the prize port and pivotal point in numerous campaigns conducted by rival Chinese generals during the past five years, became an armed camp once more, ready to wage defensive warfare against the advancing advanc-ing Cantonese army, which has been blazing a path of death and destruction destruc-tion from the south. |