MURDEROUS ATTACK
THIRTEEN DEAD OR MISSING PILOT AND RADIO OPERATOR ONLY SURVIVORS (Recd This Day, 10.50 a.m.) HONG KONG, August 24. A communique states that thirteen are dead or missing from the international plane. The passengers included ten women, two children and distinguished bankers from Singloh and PeKing, who were en route to an economic conference at Chungking The pilot, Mr Woods, wirelessed the aviation officials: “I was forced down at 8.30 a.m. by Japanese pursuit planes and succeeded in landing safely, but the Japanese machine-gunned us, killing and wounding twelve passengers, a Chinese pilot and steward, who are not accounted for. The radio ope'rator and, myself evidently are the only survivors. Meanwhile the plane is on the sand in the river.
The radio operator wirelessed that the survivors were machine-gunned while swimming ashore.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 8
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