Five Japanese Planes Machine-gun C.N.A.C. Plane Killed Pilot W. C. ("Foxey") Kent Well Known Here Hongkong, Oct. 30.
IVE Japanese warplanes machine-gunned and set on fire a Sino-American China National Aviation Corporation passenger plane near Kunming yesterday, causing the death of Mr. W. C. "Foxey" Kent, American pilot, one Chinese stewardess, and seven Chinese passengers, the C.N.A.C, announced today.
Mr. Kent, red-haired American aviator known to hundreds of foreigners throughout the Far East, died when his Douglas DC2 plane was riddled with Japanese machine-gun bullets and crashed at Changyi, 120 kilometres north-east of Kunming.
Mr, Kent, who was to have cole brated his sth birthday two days hence, was well-known in Shanghai, where he served with the CN.AC. prior to the outbreak of the 1997 hos-
CN.AC. Carry On As Per Schedule Two Chinese passengers, the Chi nese ce-pilot, Mr. S. Hsu, the radio operator, Mr, J. L. Ling, escaped death, Miss Lui Mei-ying, stewardess, Who was wounded together with the ce-pilot and radio operator, died in hospital this evening.
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