THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 19, 1940- C.N.A.C. TRAGEDY.
JAPANESE USE AIR CANNON
THE MISSILES WHICH KILL. ED W. C. "FOXY” KENT, PILOT, AND EIGHT OTHERS ABOARD A CNAC PASSENGER PLANE
AT CHANÝI, NEAR KUNMING, ON OCT. 29 DID NOT COME FROM MACHINE-GUNS ·BUT FROM 20 MM CANNON MOUNT ED ON JAPANESE BOMBERS WHICH STARTED PUMPING LEAD INTO THE 'PLANE AND ITS PASSENGERS AFTER THE SHIP HAD BEEN SAFELY LANDED.
This was the report. brought by T. B. "Buster" Brown, prominent Manila Insurance man and father- in-law of Kent, who returned from Hong Kong where he visited his daughter, widow of the ill-fated pilot, says the Manila "Bulletin."
The holes left in the 'plane by the bullets
LOW PAY
AMERICAN DETAINED BY ARTISTS JAPANESE FOR SIX DAYS
THE STORY OF the detention of an American missionary by the Japanese gendarmerie at Kong Moon, about 45 miles south of Canton, was divulged in Hong Kong with the arrival from Canton of Rex Ray, 55, belonging to the American Southern Baptist Mission.
Ray came in on the Ameri- with an interpreter, also Japanese, Mr. can gunboat, U.S.S.. Mindanao. They took me to the best room in Mr. Ray was detained at Kong- the hotel and informed the man- moon about six days while en agement that I would be staying route to Hong Kong from Wuchow there at the expense of the Jap- to arrange for the evacuation of anese government. Then they in- his wife and four children to the vited me to tea in one of the best United States in accordance with cafes and told me-over the teacups the recent instructions of the state that if I tried to leave Kongmoon department. Mr. Ray said Ameri-I would be pursued and brought can consular authorities at Canton, back. had formally protested to the Jap- anese about his detention.
"Very Sorry"
Mr. Ray's family is living in Hong Kong. His wife, whom he
"They also forbade me to see married in 1920, the year he came
any other foreigners and limit to China, was formerly Janet Gil-
ed my freedom to part of the man, daughter of American mis-
main street of the town. "Later as well as fragmentssionaries who at the time she was
I called the Japanese of the missiles found at the scene born were operating on Hainan gendarmerie headquarters and of the strafing indicated that not island. She was the first white asked them to telegraph American inachine-guns but cannon were woman born there, came into the consular authorities in Canton or used by the Japanese, Brown re-world in an old deserted temple, Hong Kong about my case. I was ported. As far as he could tell the only place where the
to'd not to call any more and they this was the first indication found hostile Japanese authorities
would notify me if there were any that the Japanese fighting 'planes lowed her parents to live. operating in China were equipped with the latest air armaments used by the warring countries in Europe.
then al-
This is Mr. Ray's story: "I reached Kongmoon on the afternoon of October 28 and tried to arrange a passage to Macão on a river junk, but had no luck so went to Japanese gendarmerie headquarters and asked how to
news.
Sir Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, speaking at Brighton, said that with, the ex- ception of portrait painters, there than half a dozen genuine artists were not at the moment more who made more than a munition
worker.
Sir Kenneth
a.
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Sir Kenneth congratulated | Amay Brighton on holding the exhibi-go Batavis tion at a time when, he said, art Dombay galleries almost all over the world, Calcutta with the exception
of America, Cheloo were closed. The exhibition was Colombo meant to encourage a new type alre of patron, not one who would pay Halphong some ludicrous price for a work laukow but who would buy two or three biu well-chosen pictures each year at a moderate price.
healthy and broadly based than Present day art was much more the old patronage, but he ad- mitted: "There are some pictures in the exhibition I cannot make head or tail of."
they
"On November 2, having heard nothing, I visited the headquarters again and was told that if I wrote was then taken to Canton, where a letter containing no complaint I arrived the same day, and went whatever they Kent was killed by one such
American consular people in Can- where I was told that one of my would send it to to the American consulate general, bullet which entered his back and
ton. Later that day, while going runners had brought news of my came out near the heart while the
to dinner, I met the interpreter, plight the day before and pilot sat at the 'plane controls get there,
who said I would be allowed to had taken up the matter. after he had landed his ship, "I showed them my American leave on November 5.. Brown said. The eight other oc-passport and other documents to "About daylight on November 5 consul general' at Canton and re- "I also called on the Japanese cupants of the plane, including establish myself and then return- the Japanese gendarmerie chief counted my experience and asked the Chinese stewardess, were ed to my hotel. On October 30 1 motor boat. Again he said 'Go!' for an explanation. They offered killed when they refused to follow found I could go to Macao over-packed up and he drove me five none. . instructions from Kent. that they land, and sent for a baggage miles to the river where he put very sorry.'
All they said was 'we are make a dash for cover instead of coolie, but instead the chief of the me in charge of the crew of a remaining in the 'nlane.
Javanese gendarmerie showed up motor boat. Again he said 'Go!' I
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