The Japanese Navy, they said, has been fully aware of the fact that the Canton-Hankow Railway has been utilized for the transportation of Chinese troops and munitions to the northern front, but the Japanese air force had refrained from bombarding the railway until foreign nationals had completed their withdrawal from Hankow.
Tt was further pointed out that the Japanese air force had suffered considerable losses in raids on Nanking "simply because of conscientious efforts to bomb military establishments alone."
Some Japanese naval bombers, it was revealed, had recently returned to their base without dropping any bombs because of their failure to ascertain the location of military establishments in a certain city in China,
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