Complete aerial mastery of Nanking was claimed in a communique issued yesterday by the headquarters of the Third Fleet.
The announcement based this claim on the fact that during yesterday's two raids on China's capital, at 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning, only eight Chinese planes rose to meet the attackers, Of these craft, the com munique said, four were shot down.
Wrecked by Japanese bombs, according to the announcement, were the buildings of the Army General Staff, the Central Government's and other important agencies, hangars at the aerodrome and the defence Works at the Fukueishan Forts, The Japanese raiders sustained little damage, the communique asserted,
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