Hongkong, Sept. 7.
The Japanese Consul-General here emphatically denies that he gave assurances of immunity to Eurasia Aviation Corporation planes, as reported on Monday.
In a letter forwarded to the German Consulate-General on Saturday, he requested advance notifications regarding routes and time tables of aeroplanes before immunity could be given, he stated.
However, such information was not supplied to the Japanese in regard to the trip in question, presumably because Monday was a holiday in Hongkong and the German Consulate-General was closed.—Reuter.
"Stay on the Ground"
Tokyo, Sept. 7.
By staying on the ground, Chinese commercial aircraft will "most effectively" evade mishaps resulting from encounters with Japanese naval or military aeroplanes. Rear-Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, director of information ofthe Naval-Section of the Imperial General Headquarters, believes.
Commenting on the machinegunning of a Eurasia Aviation Corporation airliner en route to Yunnan from Hongkong on Monday, Rear-Admiral Noda reiterated that while Japanese military or naval aircraft would not deliberately attack Chinese civilian "planes, the Japanese authorities could not guarantee the safety of such machines if they flew over the zones of operations of the Japanese forces.
He asserted that the two recent incident involving, one a China National Aviation Corporation machine, the other a Eurasia Aviation Corporation craft, had shown that it was difficult for fliers engaged in military operations to differentiate promptly between military and civilian aircraft.—Domei.
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