FACTORY IN CHINA
MAKING OF PLANES
CONTRACT TO AMERICA
(Received February 19, 2.10 p.m.)
LONDON, February 18,
A message from Hankow states that the Chinese Government has signed an American contract for the establishment of an aircraft factory to be operative at the end of sixteen months. Russian supplies of pilots and machines continue, and the Government is also buying English and American aircraft. The Peking correspondent of "The Times" states that the Japanese offensive in Shansi is well under way. The main body has reached Senchow and the left wing has passed Pingyao. Two raiding Japanese bombers and three fighting planes were shot down near Hankow when seventeen Chinese planes intercepted fifteen Japanese planes. The Chinese lost one machine. Shanghai reports that. the steamer Mikasa has left for Japan with urns containing the ashes of 13,000 Japanese soldiers killed in action.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1938, Page 10
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