Hankow, Feb. 26.
A Chinese official report on yesterday's air raid on Nanchang adheres to the original estimate that eight Japanese machines were shot down by Chinese aviators. The Japanese claim that they had shot down 42 out of 50 Chinese planes is described as "amusing." No information, however, has yet been given out on the Chinese losses, but, it is stated, the damage done to the Nanchang airfield was) negligible, Altogether 30 Chinese planes—all bombers—participated in the raid on Taihoku, the capital of Formosa, and Chikutu, on the western coast of the island, last Wednesday, it was revealed by a Government spokesman here yesterday, While all the pilots were Chinese, he added, the machines were of Soviet manufacture. They mere of a new type—very fast and capable of long flights.
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