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Show Smartest Trick of Whole Sino-Jap War 4 Flyers Land on Enemy Field and Clean Up. PEKING, CHINA. The commander command-er of a Japanese naval base in central cen-tral China reports the neatest trick of the whole Sino-Japanese war performed per-formed by four of his fliers. They landed their planes on the Chinese airfield at Chengtu in Szechuan province in the course of an air attack. "On the airfield reverberating with the rat-a-tat of machine guns and rifle fire, the four airmen sprang from their machines, firing pistols in their right hands and tightly gripping grip-ping a box of matches in the other. "Like rabbits they ran here and there, putting fire to still intact Chinese planes amid a rain of enemy bullets. "With flames suddenly enveloping the machines, one pilot rushed to the enemy headquarters. Unseen by the enemy, he brought cans of gasoline and set the headquarters on fire." Thus reads the Japanese report, undenied by Chinese sources. "Their work completed," continues the report, "the four pilots sped to their planes and took to the air through the black smoke covering the field." These deeds reportedly were carried car-ried out after a Japanese bomber had dropped its load and the fighter i planes had downed Chinese planes which had gone up to combat them. ! |