Soviet Fliers Greeted by Cheering Crowds tower to induce the Chinese commander to cease firing.
"A Chinese battalion commander met me with a gun in hand and threatened to shoot," the Japanese officer said pushed him to th floor and jumped from the wall.
At that moment, he became the target for Chinese soldiers. A bullet pierced his left thigh, while other shots found their. mark it Moscow, July 27.
A triumphal welcome was accorded the first trio of aviators to cross the North Pole to North America. Messrs, Chkalov, Baydukov. and Beliakov, yesterday in Moscow, M. Chkalov addressed a throng of workers at a mass meeting and afterward the heroes were escorted by thousands of cheering citizens along a flower-strewn route to the Kremlin.
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