The Archive · 1934

Manchus Release Plane

Harbin, Oct. 2.

The Manchoukuo Government to-day announced that the Soviet plane and the two Soviet aviators who were taken into custody several months when they landed in Manchoukuo territory, will be allowed to return Russia, The Soviet Consul in Harbin has apologized to Manchoukuo for the incident and promised that the airmen would be severely punished. A full investigation, it is said, revealed that the flight of the aeroplane over Manchoukuo was not intentional United Press.

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