Into central China, bombers inflicted serious damage to Chinese aircraft) bases in Kiangsi and Chekiang, reports reaching local official sources [said yesterday.
Chinese losses were estimated to exceed forty machines, All Japanese craft returned to their bases, the dispatches claimed, Two attacks" were launched on Hangchow and its vicinity. One was fat dusk on Saturday,.the other at dawn Sunday.
Two hangars were set on fire and their contents destroyed at the /Kwangteh aerodrome near Hangchow, while sixteen Chinese craft that were wheeled out on the field to offer combat to the Japanese air [squadrons were disabled before they tould take off. The hangars are be-leved to have contained from four to five bombers each.
In a similar raid on Kienkiao, west of Hangchow, the Japanese aircraft claim that they have destroyed one! hangar. Chinese fighter craft fought the attackers, but were repulsed, four being shot down, Another attack was made on Kinossuchen, also a subsidiary base near Hangchow, with "satisfactory results," the Japanese authorities stated.
Also Nanchang Proceeding far inland, the Japan-bombers also raided Nanchang in 'Among the craft believed to have been destroyed by the Japanese bombers at' Kwangteh were two Northrop bombers which "had just returned from their fatal bombing of Shangha's International Settlement.
Similar raids were again conducted yesterday morning at daybreak.
Raiding Hungjao aerodrome early yesterday morning, two Japanese seaplanes from the flagship Tdzumo and the cruiser Sendai, it is claimed by the Japanese authorities, destroyed two Chinese bombers and one fighting plane, Aut able-bodied Cantonese between 25 "and 30 years of age have been mobilized by order of the Kwangtung Provinciat Government for military training, according to a Chinese message' from Hongkong.
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