French Authorities Here Receive Reports of Tragedy; Carrying Japanese Inspector Shanghai, July 13. GHAT down by a Japanese military plane while flying over Weichow Island, occupied by the Japanese, an Air France liner, specially chartered to convey a Japanese inspection officer from Hanoi to Kwangchowwan, crashed somewhere near the island] on Sunday, reliable information reaching the French authorities} here stated last night, Shots were fired at the plane from the ground, reports also stated.
In the plane were two French officers, well-Anown in Shanghai, Capt. E. Bougon, a director of the Hongay Coal Ca, and M. Picard~1 destelan, stepson of M. Valentin, head the French Police C.LD.
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