Hongkong, Aug. 8.
IHE British destroyer, H.M.S, Thracian has rescugt eight of the eleven persons who were aboard the Shanghai-bound. plane Chekiang, belonging to the China National Aviation. Corporation, which crashed in the vicinity of Chuang Point, 90 miles north of Hongkong, this morning.
News of the rescue was contained in a wireless message received late to-night from one of the two Customs cruisers which had joined in the search for the plane.
The survivors, it stated, were being taken off the Chuang Lighthouse by boats from H.MS. Thracian.
No° details were given of the fate of the three persons still missing, but it is hoped that they have also survived and can be picked up later.
'The 'Thracian is expected to arrive here about four' o'clock to-morrow morning, and, until then, a full story Of the disaster cannot be given.
Unlil "the wireless message from the Customs cruiser was receives nothing was known about the fate of the passengers and crew of the miss~ Ing plane since 1005 this morning, when the Kaitack Aerodrome picked up message saying: "We are landing."
The air-liner was believed to have made a forced descent in the vicinity of Chilong Point, and this appears to hhaye been the ease, On hearing of the Chekiang's forced Janding, the authorities here express wed fear that she may have struck rocks, and said that, i€ so, she must have suffered serious damage,
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