Mechnical trouble on March 3 was blamed by a Japanese naval spokesman for the forced landing effected in the Whangpoo on the evening of March 2 by a Japanese naval aeroplane, The Sccupant of the machine was rescued, while the plane was taken out of the water by crash crews rushed to the scene soon after the mishap, he said, city, ying in the direction of Point Island, tothe Japanese alr base in that vicinity. 'The machines were fying extremely low, and. the roar Jor the engines drew' many to their What happened next was not visi-bie from The Bund, but people in the Yangtszepoo area near the river, the "North-China Herald" informant said, saw one of the aeroplanes crash into the river at a spot just before the Riverside plant of the Shanghai Power Company.
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