The Archive · 1937

Downed in Chekiang

Soochow, Sept. 18.

The wreckage of the twelve Japanese planes brougħt down in Chekiang during the last month is now being transported to Nanking by train. The wrecked machines ' include bombers, fighting planes. and seaplanes.

One of the three planes which attacked Chinese positions between Tachang and Kiangwan at 230 p.m. on Thursday was hit by Chinese antiaircraft guns, according to a Chinese officer who arrived here yesterday:

The machine wes immediately enveloped in flames as its gasoline tank caught fire, All the occupants were burned to death.—Central News.

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