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RACE COURSE AS CHINA'S HENDON.
DAILY FLIGHTS TO KEEP THE ENGINES IN ORDER.
TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE 'BUS, DON'T YOUR ENGINES MAKE A FUSS? UP ABOVE THE WORLD SO HIGH, "TAKE ME UP AND LET ME FLY.
[Br LOUISE B. WILSON.]"
It is sometimes amusing to re turn to well-known places about which a definite impression still lingers in the mind and to see the changes which have taken place, For example, an old resident of Shanghai returning after a twelve- month absence at the present time, might very well refuse to believe the evidence of his eyes.. Apar from the curfew law there are other peculiarities.
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week when, at the difficult landing which the pilots declare the Race Course, to be, a wing was grazed, which necessitated the temporary retirement of the injured plane.
THE TRUTH ABOUT NANKING.
STATEMENT ·BY AMERİCAN MISSIONARIES WHO WERE THERE.
A PRECONCERTED PLAN.
The following public statement is issued for publication by Nanking į Missionaries regarding outrage of March 24th-
were
In order that the Americaa public may know the facta regard- ing the Nanking, outrags, we, the | undersigned Américan citizens and
residents of Nanking who foreign lives and property were present when the outrages against committed in that gity on March 24th, desire to make a public state- ment. Out of our own first-hand Bigger and Fitter.
experience and observation we un- Expert attention is on tap on equivocally affirm that those out- such hushed and melancholy occarages were committed by armed sions. The mechanies, two for each Nationalist soldiers, in uniform. machine, a rigger and a fitter, who acted with the knowledge and emerge in practical-looking, and approval of their superior officers. much grensestained gear and do their work. The rigger and the fitter are the machine's best friends. Chief among these is the transThe former, takes charge of all the formation to be noted on the Race tiggings of the plane and the latter Course and on the stretch of Bub of its engines. bling Well Road running parallel Their co-operation with other to the track. Formerly nothing members of the crew is complete or short of a race meeting could else woe betide those who are in the magnetize from the far end of machine and those who stand Chinese alleyways so excellent directly under it some thousands demonstration of the quiet plts of feet below. The pilot likes to feel suras to be derived from a well-implicit confidence in his mechanics, developed curiosity. Now, hun but apparently no man can ever be dreds of Chinese, with a good entirely above suspicion, although sprinkling of the foreign curious, of the most apologetic kind. For stand about waiting for the won after each mechanical mishap ar ders of the age to reveal then when the aeroplane needs and re- selves.
ceives overhauling, it is the rigger and the fitter who make the frat trip into the blue, thus emulating the medieval habit of the host who always started the wige-cup.
The reason for this is not far to seck Six Faery 3D scroplanes of the reconnaissance type built to carry bombs and machine-guns, roll each morning between the hours of 9 and 19 from under their shelter- in matsheds to the edification of bystanders and the glory of the British Fleet Air Arm. They are part of the Fleet Reconnaissance Flight formerly stationed at Malta and attached to H.M.S. Eagle and now of H.M.S. Argus..
A "! Thripenny" Plane." It is encouraging to simple folk "to realize after a peep inside these machines, a glance directed as the pilos's reat and devices for control lug the air that the mechanics of the motor car rule here too, and awegives way to a certain feeling of security. To watch the care free mae with which a "thrípenny plane ina they are affectionately called by their pilots) glides across
the
Each of the naval planes now stationed at the Race Course has, besides the mechanics, crew of three-pilot, telegraphist and ob server.
The daily fights are made each morning from a to 19 when the Public Recreation Ground is closed to the public. This is more to keep the engines in good order than for exhibition purposes, despite the Chinese conception to the contrary. A certain amount of aerial observa- tion is also believed to be in pro- gress, as can be judged from the presence of the naval observer.
These observers have been a part of the service since 1990, although naval pilots, as distinguished from R. A..S. pilots, were only in augurated in 1994.
Larks, And Some Larkers." The airmen of the Argue are un- der the command of Captain Wild mana Lushington, of the Royal Mazines, who is also a pilot of one of the machines and who saw service during the war as a pilot. Other Wynne, pilots are Lieut. F. G.
G. Oliphant.
E. OF Price RN. The observers are Lieut. Comdr. AE. Thompson and Lieuta. H. T. B. Bayliss and E. G. Baker. Lieut. C. Eccles, R.A.M.C. is attached to the station for the time being to attend to any mishaps which may overtake the fliers, and Licuts Dean, Derrell and Walton still remain in the Argus:
of the Race Course, climbs up 1,200 feet, chases its tail a bit in the blue, and then, after arcling precarious ly near to the tower of the China United Assurance Building op posite effects, a billowy landing in front of the Public Grandstand, is to feel the awe returning in spite of one's best intentions. An effecRN., Lieut. F. H. G. Oliphant. tive way to fid oneself for the RN., A. Murray, R.N. and licut.
R.N., Lieut. F. H of any trace of the awe, negarding to the pilots of the Race Course, is to do a daily dozen of fights for a short period. Then one takes on a manner which quite distinguishes one from other mere mortals.
The planes on the Race Course, weighing something over twn tons each, surprise the observer at close range with their lithe grace in action. They seem to diminish in size, also, upon closer inspection," The naval fliers sign up for four and" in reality, each machine an years after having passed a rigid occupy & surprisingly small space. examination with a long list of This is because they can fold up qualifications," then, should the like a butterfly, or even more comfure of this branch of naval service pactly than a butterfly, and leave prove strong, they can later have only a long slender caterpillar-like another two years in the air. The body to be tucked inside the match age-limit for flying in the navy is ed. Each matshed on the Rave 33. so that most of the pilots get an Course is capable of holding six early start, and an additional machines so folded. On occasion, reason is offered for the kind of also, the matshed lends its sym temperament which is identified pathetic shelter to a plane with a with all flying-folk, namely, that broken wing or some other ailment, they like a bit of a lark "-North such as was occasioned during last China Daily News.
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Those outrages consisted not only in the looting of foreign homes, consular officers, schools, hospitals and places of business, but also in the burning of foreign homes and schools; in deliberate murder; in twice shooting and wounding a young American woman; in shoot- ing at and attempting to kill for eign men, women and children; in the attempted rape of American women; and in other shocking in- dignities to foreign women too in- decens to be published. To many of such things we can hear the swem testimony, of eye-witnesses; and numerous other cases have been proven beyond the least shadow of doubt,
From the statements of many of the Nationalist soldiers, made to us. and from the testimony of Chinese friends, is is an established inct that they entered Nanking with de finite license, if not actual instruc tions, to rob and kill foreigners. From the actions of the troops. it was evident that their plan was to loot foreign buildings, force the inhabitants to disclose the location of their valuables, strip them of their clothing and maltreat them at will.
Troops Not Out Of Control. - Some of us were told both by these soldiers themselves, and by the Chinese friends who helped us to find places of concealment, that we should surely be killed. It is our conviction that the firing from, the naval vessels prevented the murder of many foreigners who mere caught in the city,
It was immediately after the shelling was begun by the Ameri can and British ships that bugles were sounded and the soldiers ceased their systematic work of. destruction, thus demonstrating that they were under the control of higher military officera. These are all incontrovertible facts.
Communist Guilt.
It now seems well established, -in
the opinion of both Chinese and foreigners, that those responsible (Continued on next Column)
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