THRILLING AIR-RACE
Chiang Kai-shek Chased by Japanese planes outdistanced (Beceived 93 8.45 a.m.) , NANKING, Dec. 7. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and Mr W. H. Donald won a thrilling air-race. After taking off at daybreak in a highspeed air-liner Japanese planes pursued them, but were outdistanced. The Chinese report that a counterattack in the neighbourhood of Changteh resulted in the defeat of the Japanese rearguard and the reoccupation of towers near Lake Taihu, thereby cutting the communications of the Japanese forces advancing northwaTds. The Times Nanking correspondent says observers report that Chinese soldiers burned villages on the line of retreat, as the result of which disordered rnobs of villagers streamed into Nanking. ■ ■■ ii — ii— ii — IHIIM iiMiiMiiMnM nMnMld
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 5
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