The coastal ferryboat Takshing, flying the British flag, put out from Hong Kong one night last week on her regular three-hour run to Portuguese Macao. In the China Sea, a Red Chinese gunboat came up, signaled the ship to stop. But her captain ignored the order until the Communist craft sent a burst of machine-gun fire across the Takshing's bow.
As a Red boarding party, more than 30 strong, clambered to the Takshing's deck, her 300 Chinese passengers were seized by panic. One old woman knelt and chanted prayers to the Goddess of Mercy.
Others destroyed letters and notes, dumped anti-Communist...
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