Shanghai, Feb, 25.
Quoting information ' emanating from local Ningpo circles, the "Chin" ese American Daily News" reports that one Japanese military airman was shot" dead, another © wounded, while the third one was caught alive atter their plane had been forced to land in the vicinity of Ningpo. This happened on February, 48 when the Japanese plane was flying over Tung kulang near Ningpo and ft is believed that the machine was forced to land. because its engines were out of order.
"The shooting occurred only when the Japanese airmen tried to resist a group of Chinese soldiers who aps proached them after the accident, The Chinese soldiers tried to arrest them but they resisted, it is stated, and so the Chinese opened fire, Killing one of them and wounding another, The plane, described as a reconnaissance machine was also taken by the Chinese soldiers to their headquarters together swith the captured Japanese After landing In Chungking-controlled territory near Ningpo, one of the Japanese airmen who could speak. Chinese chatted the villagers, trying to obtain Information as to the whereabouts of Chinese forces.
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