AEROPLANE EPISODE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 11

AEROPLANE EPISODE.

DETAINED WINGS RESTORED. CONDITIONS AT SHANGHAI. (British Official Wireless.) A. and N.Z. RUGBY, Aug. IS. A message from Shanghai says the wings of the British aeroplane which were detained hv Chinese troops were restored this evening. Repairs to the railway, which was cut, are now in hand. The railway line, which was cut in consecjuence of the interference with the aeroplane, is a loop line on the western border of the international settlement. It connects Kiangwan with the Chinese military headquarters and is near '.he British posts on the Shanghai cordon established by the Defence Force when the international settlement was imperilled some months ago. It was pure coincidence that the cutting of the railway occurred at a time when refugees and armed stragglers from the defeated Southern forces are flocking along the routs from Nanking to Shanghai Latest reports state that there is a latent uneasiness among the Chinese owing to the uncertainty of the situation and the consequent recurrence of extremist propaganda. The British naval authorities on the Yangtse River have made arrangements for facilitating the withdrawal of foreign residents in Nanking to vessels on the river should such a course become necessary in view of the presence of Northern troops.