Nanking, Oct. 12.
Four of the seventeen Japanese planes which raided Nanking this afternoon and Kiangyin this morning were shot down by Chinese pursuit planes, two in Nanking and two in Kiangyin.
After breaking through the Chinese air cordon, fifteen Japanese craft, nine bombers and six pursuit planes, appeared over Nanking at 145 pin. the first to visit the capital after a "holiday" of several days. The raiders concentrated on points near the south gate, where a total of 26 bombs were dropped.
One Japanese pursuit plane and one heavy bomber were downed after a gruelling fight with a squadron of Chinese pursuits, Liu—Tsui-kang, who has an imposing record of shooting down enemy planes, to-day accounted for the heavy bomber. When the pursuit plane was damaged, one of the Japanese pilots jumped out but he failed to pull the cord of his parachute in time, and crashed to death.
Nearly three hours earlier, according to official reports, two Japanese planes were sighted over Kiangyin, and were immediately challenged by Chinese pursuit planes. Both the enemy planes were shot down there.—Central News.
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