Missing "Flying Fort" Believed Sunk San Diego, Jan. 10
All warships and aircraft with the exception of a destroyer squadron to-day cancelled their search for the missing "fying fortress" patrol bomber which disappeared "200 miles off Point Loma last Wednesiay afternoon. They returned to rheic previous. assignments.
The missing bomber, connected with Squadron "VP.7" and com manded by It. T. E. Carpenter, had not been heard from since 3 pan. of Wednesday. Navy oflicals, despite the widespread search ordered immediately after learning that the giant plane was missing, feared that the bomber had crashed and sunk. Seven men were aboard when the bomber disappeared.
One serious accident marked the search, in which more than 100 planes and dozens of warships had token part, A giant Navy bomber had crashed on Jan. 8 while attempt ing to land on: the aircraft carrier Saratoga. After crashing near the Saratoga, the plane burst into flames and sank. All men aboard the plane Drecedent in Parliamentary history. were rescued. Several were burned the International Seltlements admin-or brulsed—United Press.
London, Jan. 10, The latest incidents and developments in the Far East will be reviewed with experts of the Foreign Omce by the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, on his return to London to-day from Chequers, according to the Diplomatic Correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."
Hitherto no official report, the says, has been received at Whitehall regarding the incidents which occurred Shanghai last week, which include the attack by Japanese soldiers on two British policemen, Probationary Sergeant A. R. Turner and Inspector P.G. West.
Meanwhile, instructions are expected to be forwarded shortly to the British Consul-General in Shang-'Mr. Herbert Phillips, concerning the reply to be made to the Shanghhal_ Municipal Council's request for guidance in connection with the demands made by the Japanese authori-les in Shanghai, 'The instructions, the correspondent adds, are likely to indicate that any new' and special measures found necessary should be expressly on a temporary basis and without pre-Judice to permanent arrangements, which would affect other "Powers with rights in the Settlement, "The Japanese demands to the Shanghai Municipal Council include:
1. An increase in the number of Japanese members of the Shanghai Municipal Police and "improved treatment" for them.
2. The appointment of Japanese to important posts in the Couneit's Administrative organs.
3. An increase In the Japanese personnel employed by the Council,
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