ASSISTING CHINA
INTERNATIONAL AIR SQUADRON NEW ZEALANDER INCLUDED (Received 20th December, 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, 18th December. The Hong Kong correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says the existence of an international air squadron in the service of the Chinese Government is revealed by one of its members who arrived at Hong Kong to recuperate after crashing in a fight with Japanese planes near Hankow. He is a New Yorker and goes under the name of Robert Wherlon.
“There are 20 of us who fight for our living,” he said. “There were 22. but two have gone. “We Americans cannot use our right name or we would lose our citizenship. “Two others in the squadron are an Australian named White and Ray Whitehead, the New Zealander who flew the Tasman.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 20 December 1937, Page 7
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