Relief Transported to Monocacy in Kiukiang Twelve American sailors left Shanghai yesterday morning in a Japenese navy transport plane, which flew them to Kiukiang, where they will relieve a similar number of sailors from the UJS.S. Monocacy. This unusual means of transportation was offered by the Japanese authorities to the U.S. Navy after they had i to allow the U.SS. Oahu convey the reliefs and supplies to the Monocacy, which is now stranded together with the H.M.S. Cockchafer in Kiukiang.
The flight is to be repeated today when more sailors and officers are to leave for Kiukiang by the same means, while supplies are to be similarly taken to H.M.S. Cockchatei by the same Japanese naval trons port planes. This is not the first instance of cooperation between the Japanese navy and those of the U.S.A. and Britain, stationed. in China waters: as mail was transported on as previous occasions by Japanese planes to foreign war vessels in the Yangtze, where they were completely cut off fráfn the outsitie world by he hostilities in their v y.
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