Planes Drop Bombs on City Outskirts Nanchang, Sept. 24.
In their extensive operations yesterday, Japanese aeroplanes also visited Nanchang, provincial capital of Kiangsi.
Sirens were sounded about 5.30 in the afternoon immediately after a report was received saying that twelve enemy machines. had been sighted over the Kiangsi-Fukien border heading in a northwesterly direction.
Not long afterwards, three of the Japanese planes came over Nanchang, flying at an high altitude. Chinese anti-aircraft guns. opened up, sending volleys of shells at them. After having dropped several bombs in the outskirts of the city, the raiders beat 'a retreat.—Central News.
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