The Archive · 1937

Chinese Boast of Defences

There are "fortresses and military establishments" in both cities, the official asserted, and the "Chinese themselves had boasted of the perfection of their defences ogams attacks from the al barding the railway until foreign nationals had completed their with. drawal from Hankow.

Tt was further pointed out that the Japanese air force had suffered considerable losses in aids Nanking "simply because of "con scientious efforts to bomb military establishments. alan Some Japanese naval bombers, it was revealed, had recently returned to their base without dropping any Bombs because of their failure to certain the location of military tablishment ina certain in China,

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