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Japan Bombscrmemet|| 1 f* ft* if j de'! moU.S. 'Sub'ber!sanI haiCroft Attacked i*°; tw lt;While on Mercy 'jatiErrand in Yangtze .ac*«The bombing of a United States,^ Navy submarine in Chinese waters i.in*! by a Japanese airplane was disclosed j rer I in San Francisco today. ]we- I ftp »•The incident. 3:ept secret lor weeks.! .. r | was i evealed by Lieut. R. H. Ran-1 not 'r1 som, comnrmder of the submarine i Peis involved He came here by lmer on I v ’ * . * • * * — i cira furlough 1o his home in San An-ton in Tex ‘es51$'d\1The secrecy v. Inch has shrouded the '| bombing was believed to have been prompted by the gravity of the inci-assdent. The .submarine wa* on an. —-01eo;to]imtie■ thierrand of mercy at the time of the I i attack, and notice of this had been; w ' given the Japanese authorities be- ,! fore the bombing occurred, the Navy ; officer said.BOMBED ON YANGTZE u!The submarine was the S-37, flagship of the Asiatic submarine fleet, and was in the Yangtze River when SI ;il was bombed. Lieutenant Ransom;ueCiHi i;u iJ “The S-37 was en route from!,rSingtow to Cavite when one of y ; our crew became quite sick” the1 er, (3 j submarine commander recounted, i I 0j “I radioed Admiral Yarnell fin-r0l y I command of the Asiatic fleet for j instructions. He said to put in lo' A rJ the closest hospital ship up the £ ( Yangtze River.i “Tins we proceeded to do The c admiral meanwhile, had ?dvi«ed'jn vjihc Japanese Navy and officials !mj s lhat the submarine was coming m ’ ca, n I on an errand of mercy. ' , ‘c ON SURFACE stf' *Sh o r tl y a ft e rv. a r d we received'* clearance to land our man and pro-!Fapr«coihei — I » i t»‘•vu tip*, 1 I l.i, |''SJit'1-ndyi-its.coinmr-nWe were running on the surface pal with our running lights plainly vi^ihlo when Jrpancse dcrlrnj ers | *h nearby trained their guns 011 us.“Before we could understand i as-what this meant a Japanese air-[Ik plane swooped down over us and l*h; lei loose a bomb that missed us by 'fef only 10 yards and shook the ship up badly ” 1 anSEVERE ROCKING PchrLieutenant Ransom explained nQ that no one was injured, despite | aj, the severity of the rocking He ] olJ considered diving immediately tlt;Hri escape possible further bombs. butLp a British pilot aboard advised! against this.Hr kepi the submarine an the r*urface and there was no furtherahincident.The matter was the subject of a protect to the Japanese Govern- m. menf, but no qnhsfartnry ex pinna- lb ^ | tion was received. 1he submarine iQl-1 commander vnd. 1
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Fri, Aug 04, 1939
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