Hongkong, Nov. 5.
Draped in American and Chinese flags, a casket containing the body of the late W. C. "Foxey" Kent, American pilot, arrived here last night aboard a special C.N.A.C. plane from Kunming.
More than 100 members of the liner local American community gathered at the aerodrome last night to pay their respects to the late American pilot who was shot down by five Japanese planes near Kunming on October 30. by Japanese police who the Pierce a short while be-jours outside the e Pierce have had Mr. Kent was piloting an unarmed, civilian transport plane, carrying women and a baby among its passengers, when he was attacked by the five Japanese warplanes. The plane in which Mr, Kent and eight Chinese were killed was the property of the Sino-American China National Aviation Corporation.
Among the Americans who gathered here last night to meet the special plane bearing Mr. Kent's remains was the American Consul General in Hongkong, Mr. Addison E. Southard.
Buried in Wreaths, Mr. Kent's casket was carried to St. Andrew's Church where a memorial service will be held at 230 pin. today. Later Mr. Kent's body will be cremated and his ashes sent to the United States by Pan-American Clipper plane—United Press, Small Celebration of
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