AEROPLANES FOR CHINA
CONTRACT PLACED IN AMERICA WILMINGTON (Delaware), Jan. 12. (Received Jan. 12, at 11.55 p.m.) The Bellanca Aircraft Corporation disclosed that it signed a contract with the Chinese Government in August for 200 fighting planes costing 8,300,000 dollars. The machines are a combination of fighters and bombers.
The machines are to be delivered by March. Each will mount five guns and carry seven 3001 b bombs. The New York Herald-Tribune’s Washington correspondent isaysthe planes will provide Marshal Chiang Kai-shek with improved equipment to carry on his guerrilla warfare against the Japanese.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23706, 13 January 1939, Page 7
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