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7, Lowndes lace, u.W.1.
7th February, 1939.
Dear Lord liɛlifax,
I have just had a letter from my son Mark Watson
who was a pa.senger in the Imperial Airways plane "Delia"
when it was shot at from a Japanese warship on 31st
January.
He says that they were quite four miles away
from the Island Weichow at the time and they were only a
few hundred feet up and carried a flag on the wing of the
plane so it was quite impossible that the "apanese did
not identify the plane they were following the usual
route taken three times a week by English planes and twice
a week by French planes.
My son says they were fired at six times one or
two of the shots only just missing them.
I thought a personal account of what actually
happened might be useful.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) Claire Manton.