Ca-operating with land operations on the Lunghai front, a large number of naval planes, commanded by Lieut-Commander Hikaru Umano, at 8.30 o'clock yesterday morning raided a concentration of 400 military freight cars near the Hsuchow railway station, Numerous cars, a naval spokesman announced here last night, were set on fire and otherwise destroyed. Also successfully bombed, he said, were locomotive sheds and other structures and equipment nearby.
"The raid, the spokesman asserted. has dealt a very severe blow to the Chinese forces on the Lunghai line.
Washington, Apr. 27. The United States have not taken part in the discussions on the question of the Chinese Maritime Customs in Shanghai. but knew of conversations on this subject, Mr. Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State. declared to the press today. He added that the U.S. Government is ied in the preservation of the Shanghai Customs' integrity Discussions on the customs question are reported from Tokyo to be going on between Japanese Foreign Office officials and Sir Robert L. Craigie, British Ambassador there.—Havas,
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