AIR INCIDENT OVER JAPAN

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 9

AIR INCIDENT OVER JAPAN

U.S. Jets Shoot At Soviet Plane

(tIZ - Prvu Association-Copyright) ( R ec 12.10 a.m ) TOKYO, February 16. of the Kuriles Japan nor 'hern-most island, is just south comman I din K general of the Far ah* r orce, t aid the American pilots broke off the engagement to avoid violation of Russian-held territory. 1 he interception was made near Nemuro after fho mumst planes had been spotted by radar interceptor pilots' who are members of Japan’s defence force, on a routine patrol’. Th f 'th Ig ? a th * lnt ™ ders to land, but the signal was ignored and the leading American plane opened fire. g

-The Air Kor = e said the American r^Av? rs were EB4 Thunderjets.' The fighter 8 the fastest Russian propeller The United States Air Force, in January, threatened to take “all possible measures” to stop air violations of Japanese territory. The warning was given after planes from Soviet « ad u? een re Ported making frequent flights over Hokkaido, which is Tk few from Soviet terriIs tbe first confirmed violation since the warning. The » Soviet press has accused America of transforming Hokkaido Russia ” sprmgboard for an attack on T* a P ane se territories of Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands were undS > °J , h ted v u to the . Soviet Union mem t^e Y a lta conference agree-