Whether or no hostilities had previously occurred upon the mainland, I hold that the acts of the Japanese commander in boarding the Kowshing and threatening her with violence in case of disobedience to his orders were acts of war.
Holland argues that the actions of the Japanese commander against the Kowshing were acts of war regardless of prior hostilities.
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