London, Oct. 1.
A Netherlands plane carrying Mr. Tomonori Shirahata, Attache to the Japanese Embassy in London, and Mr. Mitsumasa Hoshina, Attache to the Japanese Embassy at Moscow, en route from Malmo, Sweden to Amsterdam on an official mission, was attacked by a German naval plane at 2.10 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, it was learned here yesterday.
The Japanese Attaches arrived safely at Amsterdam and came to London on Friday evening. One passenger in the plane was instantly killed when 10 machine-gun bullets struck the craft, Although a bullet hit the gasoline tank the machine managed to land at Amsterdam.
The Japanese diplomats were on their way from Stockholm. The plane was machine-gunned just before it few over the Netherlands coast—
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