Kun Oct, 27, JUNKERS plane of the Sino-German Eurasia Aviation Corporation was foreed down and burned when nine Japanese planes made a lightning raid on Kunming yesterday.
The Junkers, piloted by Walther Lutz, Eurasi 's chief pilot, took off and flew north when the alarm sounded, running into the oncoming raiders.
Four Japanese planes chased and machine-gunned the Junkers. Pilot Lutz was wounded twice the shoulder but succeeded in landing in a rice field. Together ith the radio operator and two Chinese guards he escaped, after which the Japanese planes fired the machine with tracer bullets.
The guards also were wounded. Herr Lutz' wounds are not serious.
The raiders machine-gunned lorries lend cars fleeting from the city 21 the air field before departing. "While the attack was in progress many residents. were frantically hurrying four of the city. The planes arrived fess than a quarter of an hour after the first alarm, their approach not having Been perceived in time to give the warning sooner—Reuter.
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