AIR BATTLES
CHIANG'S FIVE VICTORIES
NEW ZEALANDERS SERVE
LONDON, Feb. 26,
Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians are fighting in Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek's reconstructed international squadron, which forms a unit of China's reorganised air force, according to the Hong Kong correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.
During the past week it has won five major air battles, culminating in the spectacular encounter at Lanchow, in Kansu, one of the vital points on the overland munitions route from Russia.
"There," the correspondent states, "six Japanese bombers were shot down in flames. The Japanese have lost more than 30 planes in the Lanchow district during the past week. "It is reliably estimated that Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek has added to his equipment more than 1000 pursuit planes, including Russian, Italian and American types, during the past two months/'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 7
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