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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

TOKYO'S CNAC AFFAIR EXCUSE UNTENABLE

Arguments Disproved By Evidence Of Victims

Kweilin Riddled

Like Sieve:

Intended To Sink

LATEST U.S. NOTE YOUTH CROSSES

TO MEXICO

Washington, To-day.

In a note to Mexico, 'Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, urges Mexico to reconsider her rejection

of arbitration in the question of expropriated American properties;

ATLANTIC IN

SMALL YAWL

Berlin, To-day. young German sportsman, In the view of authoritative quarters in Hong Kong

or at least, in the meanwhile, to Heinrich Garbers, has succeeded this morning, the attitude adopted by the Jap-

set aside regular payments to be in crossing the Atlantic in a small anese Navy in defending their outrageous at-disbursed to the victimised Amer- yawl.

icans as soon as the amount of The voyage, from Cape Finisterra tack on the C.N.A.C. air-liner on Wednesday compensation is agreed upon by in Spain to the beach of a Brooklyn

the two governments.

Sports Club at New York ook. 52 days. is untenable.

The note accuses Mexico of a

modern civilisation.-Reuter.

Many of his provisions were lost on the trip and he arrived at Trans- Brooklyn half-starved.

Describing his adventures on the From proven statements by those involved in the violation of International Law by

proposing to replace the rule of trip, Herr Garbers said that rough tragedy, it is obvious that the real atrocity of just compensation" by a rule of weather prevailed for most of the "confiscation," which theory, if time, and he, being captain, cook was able dusk of to sleep only two hours at the. "Kweilin" attack was the deliberate ma-adopted by all nations, would im- and mate on his ship,

peril the very foundations

and 4 hours at dawn, since it was necessary to keep watch all through chine-gunning in the water of non-combatants

the night to prevent his craft from being run down by liners." struggling for their lives after the plane had been shot down, and no Japanese explanation, FAIR WEATHER however plausible they make it, can even re- move this feature of the incident from the category of an atrocity of the worst kind. Further facts of the affair re-plainly intended to go to

at bottom. fute the Japanese excuses every point. There is strong

DAMAGING ADMISSION evidence that they were waiting

What is equally important to for the plane to appear from

note is the Japanese admission Hong Kong and that they shot that no notification of the view-

it down deliberately appears. yond a doubt.

It is also evident that were determined that should escape alive.

be-

The Royal Observatory reports Ocean. that pressure is highest over the Pacific to the east of Japan. De- pressions are situated over Man- the Gulf of Tongking moving churia and to the east of the Loo-W. N. W. forecast:- S. E. winds, the choos. The typhoon is situated in moderate; fair.

point that they have now chosen to adopt to justify their attack on they a commercial plane, easily iden- no-one tifiable whether on the ground or in the air, had ever been given.

DIVERS GOING OUT

to any company operating air Far from the Japanese conten-services over and around the tion that they ceased fire as soon coast of China. 88 they discovered the word "Yu" meaning postal on the ma- chine, they poured machine-gun fire into the plane and did not desist, power-diving with guns at full blast at least twenty times, until the plane & had ac-

had tually sunk.

RIDDLED LIKE A SIEVE

But for the fact that it was riddled with bullets the machine could not have sunk. Experience has proved that this type of plane, with large balloon tyres. and retractable undercar can make an easy landing on water and main afloat for at least six hour

and

C.N.A.C.

Reports that the plane has been salvaged were stated this morning to be in- accurate by a spokesman of the company, who also stated that he was unable to confirm a fur- ther report that three unidenti- fied bodies had been recovered.

i

Present plans provide for the despatch of divers to the scene.. They will be leaving Hong Kong today and their first task will be it the maila and the

the victims

Cleak which located nken » plane: © yesterday, stated that, it had been estab- that some bodies of vic- tims wore still in the plant

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