AMERICAN AIRMAN SHOT DOWN
PROBABLY OFFERED SERVICES TO CHINESE.
JAPS. DENY KNOWLEDGE OF PILOT’S IDENTITY.
(■Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Feb. 24,
'Commander Shen, Chief of the Chinese aviation forces at Shanghai, reported Robert Short, an American aviator,’ employed by an American aircraft firm, was shot down by Japanese planes ■while flying over Sooehow. The Japanese spokesman admitted that, a Japanese plane attacked a plane over • Sooehow and engaged in a ma-'Chine-gun duel, ending in disaster to the latter plane, which they describe as Chinese, refusing to admit knowledge that it contained an American aviator.
It is believed that Short, who was •entrusted with the delivery of a fighting plane to the Nanking Government, .stopped at Sooehow and offered his -services to the Chinese; and that, he .was then attacked by three Japanese planes, with disastrous results.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1932, Page 5
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