ANOTHER JAPANESE SHIP
IN YANGTSZE
BOMBED
Chinese Claim Sinking In Retaliation Raid
Heavy Shelling Of Banks By Warships
Hankow, To-day.
Both Chinese and Japanese aircraft were active along the Yangtze River between Tatung and Kweichih yesterday.
Another Japanese warship was bombed and sunk
by Chinese planes during the day.
Seeking revenge for their defeat in the fierce land and air battle near Tatung on June 9, Japanese warships and planes began a heavy bombardment of the Chinese posi-, tions along the bank after dawn yesterday. The bombardment which was continued throughout the day was severest between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. when hundreds of shells and bombs were freely let loose on the bank.
Twenty-one Japanese planes par- ticipated in the bombing in the morning. They were joined in by 11 more in the afternoon.
DIRECT HIT
-PUNISHMENT
FOR RANSOM PAYERS
Washington, To-day.
In the House of Representa- tive, Mr. Hamilton Fish asked Congress to make cases where payment is made in the kidnap- ransom crime, punishable by a fine of $10,000 and one year's impri- sonment, except where the ran-. som is paid on the advice of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. -Reuter.
Retaliating, a squadron of Chin- JAPAN MUST LIVE
ese planes raided the Japanese war-
ships in the Yangtze River shortly MORE FRUGALLY
after 2 o'clock in the afternoon. They rained a large number of bombs.
Tokyo, June 6.
One of the missiles scored 3 The Finance Minister, Mr. Seihin direct hit on the stern of one of Ikeda, today warned the nation the enemy vessels, and heavily dam-that a lowering of the living stan- aged it.
dard was "unavoidable." It was later reported that the "At a juncture when a nation is damaged warship was partially faced with an emergency," he de clared, "a lowering of the stan- All Chinese planes returned sa-dards of living is unavoidable.” fely to their base after the raid.- Central News.
sunk.
CHECK ON REFUGEES INTO NETHERLANDS
The new head of the Treasury said he would make every effort to encourage exports, with a view to maintaining a balance of interna- tional payments.
Action round new guns during manoeuvres in the Eastern Desert. Egypt's young soldiers have to be extremely fit and hard to combat the heat and desert conditions.
ENORMOUS PLANES FOR PAN-AMERICAN
American aircraft firms, in res ponse to the invitation from Pan- American Airways to submit de signs for an advanced ocean trans- port aeroplane, have sent in draw- ings and typed data which together weigh more than a ton.
EIGHT MACHINE-GUNS IN NEW HAWKER
that
It, is now permissible to state the Hawker "Hurricane" single-seat fighter which was de- monstrated to M.P.8 when they visited the R.A.F. Aerodrome at Northolt is armed with eight machine-guns fixed in the wing to fire forward.
Four or five squadrons of the Force are now equipped with this type.
The Hurricane is the first mono- plane fighter in the R.A.F. Its speed exceeds 300 m.p.h., but it is The Seversky Aircraft Corpora- not quite so fast as a new fighter tion, on its own initiative, sub-type which is now going into pro- mitted a design which goes beyond duction, the specifications. It is for a ma- Its machine-gun fire is controlled chine to carry 45,000lb payload for by the pilot, and with 5,000 miles at a cruising speed of trouble than "pressing a button." 250 m.p.h. It would have eight 2,500 To aim the machine-guns, the h.p. engines and carry 120 passen- monoplane's flight is directed to- gers..
wards the opposing aeroplane. or other target.
Four leading firms, the Boeing Aircraft Co., the Consolidated Air- craft Corporation, the Douglas Air-Air craft Co., and Sikorsky Aircraft, submitted proposals to the techni- cal committee, of which Col. Lind- bergh is chairman.
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1
no more
VOICE TRAINING FOR OFFICERS IN R.A.F.
Many engineers think such a ma- chine would involve too great an advance, and that there ought to be out that engines of 2,500 h.p. are "Of course," he said, "there is intermediate classes. They point no worry about the importation of out that engines of 2,500 h.p. are arms and ammunition, as they con- scarcely out of the experimental tinue to flow in smoothly.”
stage, and their full development Mr. Ikeda refuted the charge that will take two or three years. the recent fall in exports ; was
HEAVY EXPENSE
Pilots in the Air Force are now caused by a decrease in the impor-
The class of machine suggested trained in voice production for tation of raw materials, caused by the stringent exchange control sys-would, it is believed, cost about radio purposes. The mechanical The Hague, To-day. · tem. Raw materials, he declared, £800,000, and it is doubted whether voice recorder, which plays a part Minister of Justice Dr. Goseling, may be imported freely if they are the expenditure of such sums on in this training, is on view at the
at present be Glasgow Exhibition. in reply to an interpellation in the to be converted into goods destined 'planes would
economical.
It enables the speaker to hear his Second Chamber concerning the for re-exportation.
British flying-boats of the "Em-own voice, and correct faults of question of foreign emigrants in
that Holland, recalled a circular which, HOME CONSUMPTION BANNED pire" class cost about $54,000. The diction and articulation, so
bigger boats now being built, such confusion may be avoided even in as reported at the time, had been
To those who urged the Treasury as the Boeings, are about twice the the difficult conditions in which addressed by him to Police authori-
to use the specie reserves of the tonnage of the "Empire" class. radio is used in flight. ties throughout the country on the
Bank of Japan for purchasing raw The "Empire" flying-boats and Radio spoken communications subject.
materials abroad, Mr. Ikeda replied the American machines used in last have to be carried on amid the The object of the circular was to that the question of tampering with year's Atlantic experiments could roaring of engines, which cannot check immigration into the Nether the reserve had not yet been studied not safely, on the westward flight, be completely shut out by the lands of refugees from Germany and by the Government.
sacrifice fuel tankage for any ap- earphones. Austria and that object, said that The main difficulty in raising preciable pay-load.
A clear and readily understood Minister, had been attained. The some of the restrictions on the im-
Designers are how required to speaking voice is important to number of Jewish emigrants already portation of raw materials, he said, provide for 100 passengers, a speed quick and accurate reception of in Holland was estimated at about lay in the possibility that goods of 200 m.p.h., and a range of 5,000 commands and reports passing be- 25,000 and in the interest of the manufactured from these materials miles.
tween aeroplanes flying in forma- labour market it was imperative would be consumed domestically, In other words, from the negligi-tion, from formation to formation, that this number should not be instead of being exported abroad. ble pay-load and the range of some or from the ground to formations. Increased.
Step to prevent the sale of goods 4,000 miles of the "Empire" class a intended for exportation at home jump to a pay-load of some 25,000 Bation.
The possibility of converting the are now being studied by the Minis-lb is proposed, and, in the opinion tries of Finance and Commerce and of many experts, present considera-'planes for military purposes is re-
Industry.-Domei.
tions of design prevent its reali- ferred to in some of the projects.
The Minister announced early measures for rendering registra tion of foreigners in Holland com- pulsory.—Trans-Ocean.