494.11 China National Aviation Corporation/17
The American Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (Matsuoka)
Excellency: With further reference to my note no. 1678 dated November 8, 1940, regarding the attack by Japanese aviation on a China National Aviation Corporation plane at Chan-yi, Yunnan Province, which resulted in the death of the American pilot, Mr. W. C. Kent, I have the honor to transmit below the following information regarding the incident which has just been reported to the Embassy by the American Consul General at Hongkong:
The plane in question caught fire after about ten minutes after the attack by the Japanese planes and the latter made several additional attacks upon it while it was burning. The passenger who was killed on the ground was killed about one hundred yards from the plane.
I avail myself [etc.]