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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 28, 1937.

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SIX JAPANESE AIRMEN IN # "SOOCHOW" RESCUE EXPLOIT Clinging To Wrecked Plane: Four Wounded Men

KARAB TERRORISM:

ANOTHER BRITON SHOT DEAD

London, To-day. A third British subject has been shot dead by Arab terror- ists in Palestine within 24 hours. He is Inspector P. A. Harris, whose death follows the murder of Mr. Lewis Andrews, District Com- missioner at Nazareth, and a Bri- tish constable.

-FURTHER

BRITISH PROTEST

Tokyo, To-day.

The British Ambassador, Sir Ro bert Craigie, again called on the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs resterday in connection with the continuation of Japanese air raids on Nanking-Renter.

COSTLY BUILDING

ABANDONED

Vermin Invade It

Infested by a plague of so-called "book lice," a large, modern, 350,000- The Palestine authorities assume dollar (£A87,500) Bat building in it is not a case of three separate New York housing 58 families, -murders but that all three crimes must be evacuated, by order of

are part of a well-prepared pro- the Health Department. gramme of the "Arab terrorists.

It is stated that the bites of the

TRANSFER TO JAPANESE DESTROYER TO-DAY

A dramatic story lies behind a brief wireless- message picked up this morning from the Butter- field and Swire steamer, Soochow, announcing the rescue of four wounded airmen.

The Soochow, which was bound for Shanghai from Hong Kong under the command of Captain Williams, and left on Sunday, was off the coast near Amoy last night when she sighted a dere lict aeroplane on the water, went to investigate and found four wounded men on the craft.

The brief message from the skipper announces that the airmen were picked up.

It is learned authoritatively that the wrecked

Over 100 suspects have been ar-lice have seriously affected children plane was a Japanese machine which had either vermin been badly hit in an air raid or a dog fight during an rested in one of the widest police in the building, that the

also thave searches the country has ever seen. -Trans-Ocean.

furniture, and that the owners have air raid along the coast. spent 100 dollars in insecticides.

STATE OF EMERGENCY

Jerusalem, To-day.

invaded clothes

and

"

The rescue was made off Chappell Island, near The owners of the building, who Amoy, late last night and it is believed that one of suits, plead that the condition arises the wounded men signalled the plane's position by

sending up a flare.

have been subjected to many law

A state of emergency was Pro-from an “act of God”

claimed at Nazareth shortly after :

the assassination of Mr. Andrews The situation is complicated by

the fact that no other flats are will-

It is understood that the Soochow took off the the ing to accept the tenants, because Wounded men and that the plane was abandoned.

by their furniture carries lice.

A post mortem shows that District Commissioner was hit three bullets, which pierced the abdomen and head causing instant-1 aneous death.

Trans-

Royal Commission on Palestine was Mr. Andrews, the press recalls, making its investigations. played a prominent role when the Ocean.

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SIX MEN ON WRECK

OF GIANT BOMBER

Later.

It is now learned that there were six airmen aboard the wrecked aero-

ISLAND BASES FOR PACIFIC

plane, which had apparently been AIR SERVICES

severely damaged by gunfire during an air raid.

Oeno, Ducie, and Henderson Is- It was a giant bomber which, re-lands, near Pitcairn Island, over ports indicate, crashed into the which British sovereignty has been. sea somewhere near Amoy at about: reafirmed by landing parties from three o'clock yesterday afternoon, the cruiser Leander, are likely to with four of the crew wounded andi two of them uninjured.

prove valuable flying boat bases in: a future Pacific air service. Ducie Island is shown charts as British; but on some

Hender

The plane, also badly damaged, remained afloat and when the air- men were picked up last night, they were found clinging to the wrecksovereignty of Elizabe age having been in the water for son Island and Oeno is stated to be in doubt. Oeno is almost midway some hours.

between the Gambier Islands, which are French possessions, and Pitcair Island.

TRANSFERRED TO-DAY

TO DESTROYER

In controlling the Chatham, the They were rescued by the Soo-Cook, Pitcairn, Oeno, Ducie, and chow only a brief period before the Easter Islands, Great Britain pos machine sank.

sesses the most vital flying boat bases It is further learned that the six for any future air service between airmen were transferred to a Ja-Australia and South America. There panese destroyer at Liao Bay at are reef-enclosed lagoons in the three o'clock this morning.

Paumotu Archipelago, which is de- No further details have been rescribed as French, which may safe ceived to indicate the extent of the

ly harbour flying boats, and they injuries of the wounded men.

are certainly worth investigating The Paumotu Archipelago, consist- ing of hundreds of small atolls, is close to Pitcairn Island Sala-y- Gomez, about 250 miles on the South Strikers introduced a new weapon American side of Easter Island, against police guards at the Domin-should also be surveyed for a flying ion Textile Mill, in Montreal, where boat base, because it is in a they hurled hives of bees at them useful position.

BEES AS NEW STRIKE

WEAPON

police battled with the The present development of for several hours and finally fic airways is likely to intensify a the Fire Department, hunt for reels and

ying boat base

ose hoses routed the bees

provide suitable