Flagship's Craft Target of Pootung Machine Guns seaplane belonging to the nese flagship Idzumo had a nar-escape from Chinese machineguns yesterday evening. The plane had been moored to the buoy up river from the Japanese flagship. while her pilot climbed on to the buoy and did something to the tip of cne of the wings. This done, he pre-Pared to take off on his usual evening fight Before ihe plane hat gathered speed on the water Chinese machinegunners on the Pootung side suddenly opened fire. The Japanese Gestroyer at the N.Y.K. Mail Wharf immediately replied with machineguns and a quick-firer, sending a number of shells into Pootung Point. The plane did not seem to be damaged, as it took off and flew for nearly an hour over the Chinese positions inland in Pootung, dropping two bombs.
The flight followed a systematic bombing of the Pootung positions Opposite Nantao by three large Japanese planes. The objectives of these planes seemed principally to be buildings along the Pootung Road.
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