Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, interviewed the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs to-day regarding. the recent attacks by Japanese soldiers on British policemen in Shanghai,—Reuter.
***Earlier messages on p. 7. returning northward to as far as Apia Harbour on the north coast, where dumping of excess petrol was reported by radio, the airliner expected to reach Page Page a few minutes later but had not been heard from since.
The direction finder of the Jost clipper went dead at [57] Tuesday, Samoan time, (327 am. Tuesday, Shanghai time), after it had reported by radio an oil leakage in one motor. The Avocet reported the set of propeller brakes on one motor indicated the clipper was flying with only three of her four motors before crashing.
It was noteworthy that the radio of the clipper went dead in the me manner as the one in the "flying laboratory" of Miss Amelia Earhart when she made her' fatal flight over the Pacific last year.
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