Seven Senior Officers Killed in Fall of a Bomber Tokyo, Aug. 14. seriously new bomber, which was taking party of ficers belonging to the General Staff on an air inspection, crashed from a height of 200 metres abortly after hopping off from the Tachikawa Aerodrome, near Tokyo.
The dead include Major-General Tsunesaburo Ogawa, Chief of the Operations Bureau; Colonel Fujioka, Chief of the Operations Secti and Major Abe, Chief of the Air craft Section.
second machine, which took off at the same time, contained General Suzuki, Chief of the General Staff and other high military officers Dut the plate continued its flight} without mishap.
Major Fukayama, an offic attached to the General Staff, who was seriously injured in the disaster, has died, bringing the death-roll to eight, as the body of a non-commissioner officer also hat been. found amongst the wreckage of the plane.
General Suzuki, Chief of the General Staff, whose machine took, off from the a few mini
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