JAPANESE HEROES
DEATH BY "HONOURABLE SELF-EXPLOSION"
(Received July 13, 1.30 p.m.)
TOKIO, July 17.
The Domei news agency announces that while it was flying from Hankow a Japanese plane crashed in the enemy lines. The occupants, "General Toji and eleven others, were compelled to meet honourable self-explosion as a result of damage to the plane received from an enemy bullet."
The agency adds that the remains of these war heroes were recovered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 15, 18 July 1939, Page 10
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