No Americans Held By Lolo Tribesmen
NANKING. Sun. (1 p.m.)—The American Graves Registration Service announced that after 15 months’ search in Far Western China, it had been positively established that no American airmen were being held as slaves by Lolo tribesmen. Two army searchers disguised as Roman Catholic missionaries traversed mountainous country few white men have trod before, and tracked down rumours that four 829 Super-Fortress fliers who crashed in Sikiang Province during the war had been enslaved by Lolo tribes.
The rumours appeared to possess some substance w’hen an aluminium bar was found in an area where Lolo tribesmen were wearing odd pieces of American Air Force clothing, but the investigators finally ascertained that the aluminium bar was part of an auxiliary petrol tank which had been dropped by an American plane, and that the clothing had been jettisoned by another plane which had trouble when passing over Sikiang Province.
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Northern Advocate, 24 November 1947, Page 5
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