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JAPANESE MURDER PLOT AGAINST AMERICAN AIRMEN IN CHINA. YOUNG CHINAMAN EXECUTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) CHUNGKING, September 20. A Japanese secret service plot to assassinate members of the United States Air _ Force in China was disclosed with the announcement that a 21-year-old Chinese had been executed today. An Associated Press correspondent says the Japanese hired him in Anhwei Province, in July last. They promised him 100,000 dollars if he carried out an elaborate plan for killing Americans and the distribution of provocatory leaflets, indicating that the killing was the work of Chinese airmen in a protest against unequal treatment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1943, Page 4
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105EXPOSED & FOILED Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1943, Page 4
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