Bombing Raids Carried Out at Hungjao and Soochow Aerodrome With the Japanese Ninth Division} operating inthe Kiangvan sector, near Shanghai, devoting its enersey to" convdlidating the positions! already wrested from the Chinese army, an clearing' its right flank and Year of menacing enemy detachnents and "smipersy the offensive yo terday was a med by the|si Tyyanese combined military and! hhaval Asing" corps. in two bombing "Chinese air bases at] Hingjao. and Soochow. Both these important Chinese aviation] centres were destroyed. practically by the wolding planes. A number of Chinese. fighting crat, torcthex with machine' shops. and" an scto-Plane anger, are said to have been ruined in the raid at Soochow, walled city about 40 miles from Shanghai on the Shanghai-Nanking, Railway, The front at Chapel, following: the repulse of the Chinese attack the evening before and carly yester-Gay morning, was marked during the day yesterday by the absence of nly continued machine gun and rifle engagements, only an oceasionall shot breaking: the regular" military routine, Last evening, however, firing was resumed on both sides, although the usual shelling on a large scale was not indulged in. At 4140 p.m. a sniper, ina godown on fan alley opposite the entrance to the Japanese Consulate-General on Whangpoo Road, dirwted—several' shels at the Municipal Polive and Sapanese guards stationed her. A eliment of Imperial Maines landed immediately from Iduma, the flagship of]
miral Mf. Nomura, moored to an adjacent dock, and the godown was surrounded. At an. early hour this morning, the naval men and municipal police from. Hongkew tation still were searching for the Machines in Combat Over Soochow The raid against the Chinese air base at Soochow yesterday followed closely on the first aerial combat yet ought between craft of the two opposing mations which met the day previous near the one of the intended operation. " Leaving the Yangtsepoo flying field, three Japanese fighting planes, on Monday afternoon, were engaged in a reconnaissance flight over the Soo-Jchow district when, suddenly, Chinese pursuit craft was detected the clouds, a short distance away from the squadron. Leaving the two other aeroplanes to confine the Soochow survey, one of the Japanese two-seater: engaged enemy, who made no effort to. Jo battle. For about ten minu according to observer, the two sir: feraft encircled and swooped about, each other, exchanging horsts of Imachine gun fire.
Finally, the Fapanese pilot spparently managed to reach a. vital spot in the armament of his oppon-lant, whose plane staggered for instant, zoomed upwards and. then
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