Nanking, Sept. 7.
Japanese military aircraft were justlied in attacking a Eurasia airliner above Hankow yesterday since the máchine was flying without the assent of the Japanese authorities, a spokesman for the Press Bureau of the Japanese Expeditionary Force to Central China asserted here today in commenting on the shooting down of a machine identified as "Eurasia—17."
The spokesman pointed out that the Hankow area formed the centre of the present Sino-Japanese military operations and constituted one of ti most vital zones of hostilities. Domei.
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