FIGHTING PLANES
AMERICAN MACHINES TOR CHINA
DELIVERY IN MARCH. EQUIPMENT FOR GUERRILLA FORCES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. WILMINGTON (Delaware), Jan. 12. The Bellanca Aircraft Corporation has disclosed that it signed a contract with the Chinese Government in August for 200 fighting planes costing 8.300.000 dollars. The machines arc a combination of fighter and bomber. They are to be delivered by March. Each will mount five guns and carry seven 3001 b bombs.
The ■•New York Herald-Tribune’s" Washington correspondent says that the planes will provide General Chiang Kai-shek with improved equipment to carry on his guerrilla warfare against the Japanese.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 5
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