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Last August 16 U. S. flyers began training Chinese pilots at Shanghai. Later the school was moved to Hangchow "to be out of range of foreign warships." Ostensibly all China's new Hawks will be Chinese piloted in any fighting which may take place. During the Shanghai battle at least one U. S. pilot, handsome Robert Short of Tacoma, Wash., took up a lone Boeing against six Japanese combat planes, killed one Japanese pilot and was shot down to death in flames (TIME...
...planes for use against Japan, a business that had become practically a U. S. monopoly. First shipment of 20 fighting planes was already en route to China last week. As a special premium with the deal, three Italian instructors took up their duties at the aviation school at Hangchow, and the famed Italian racing pilot Mario Bernardi accepted a commission as chief of the Chinese nationalist air force...
Died. Margaret Phillips Mathewson, 23, wife of Lieut. Christopher Mathewson Jr., son of the late, great baseball pitcher, aviation instructor at Hangchow, China; a fortnight after marriage, on her first flight with her husband; of injuries suffered when Mathewson crashed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong's amphibian plane on a Whangpoo River mudflat; near Lunghua, China...
...river, killed 35 coolies, just as a passenger airplane was passing overhead. Thousands of citizens thought the Japanese invasion had begun. There are no cellars to hide in in Shanghai (any hole three feet deep strikes water), so they rushed for the International Settlement. The engineer of the Shanghai-Hangchow express heard the explosion of the munitions launch some miles outside the city. In terror he ran the train on a siding, uncoupled the locomotive himself and ran back to Shanghai leaving his passengers stranded...
...typhoon season. After furious storms, the Grand Canal (running north and south between Hangchow and Tientsin) gave way in 15 places and washed out the thriving city of Yang-chow; 200.000 were reported killed, 6,000,000 more made homeless...