It must be emphasized that these are carefully checked figures. The Japanese spokesman made the damaging admission that he relied for his figures upon the Japanese pilots. How reliable they are was shown when Madame Chiang Kai-Shek scathingly said in regard to the claim that 24 Chinese planes. had been shot down at 'Nanking on September 19 this is "nine more than we sent into the air' The impressions gained from a height of 12,000 feet by airmen who are attempting to dodge anti-aircraft shells can hardly be more accurate than those of pilots who from a height of a few hundred metres mistook the limousine of a neutral Ambassador for e motor-bus.
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