'ANKING had its first taste Napking, Aug. 15. of aerial warfare when twelve Japanese machines appeared at two this afternoon to bomb the capital and were engaged by ten Chinese planes.
Columns of smoke rose to the sky as the Japanese planes Joosed missiles on the Ming Palace aerodrome and other points, Throughout the raid, which lasted half an hour, anti-aircraft and machine guns kept up an incessant fire, creating pandemonium in the city.
The Chinese claim. thet they bombs were dropped on the Ming brought down three Japanese planes: }Palace aerodrome, one of which hit two outside the Chungshan gate, in the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Park, and the other outside Kwanghuame the south-east gate near the military The raiders disappeared in a southerly direction, following which the Chinese planes kept circling "over the capital in readiness to meet a further attack, In the course of the battle to-day, four Japanese planes flew low over roof of the Reuter bullging while shell splinters fell into the yard, Sirens Sound Alarm [tne open field and the other slightly [damaged a hangar.
In addition, five bombs were Jdropped on the aerodrome outside Kwanghuamen, damaging two old waining aeroplanes and the comer a hangar.
The Japanese raiders consisted of twelve triemotor bombers of the Tientsin Americans Want
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