Striking with the combined power of the Army and the Navy, Japan's raiders of the air yesterday swooped down upon Nanchang, most powerful Chinese air base outside Hankow, to score what was claimed to be one of the most signal victories in the present hostilities, according to Domei.
Thirty-five Chinese machines, out of an original 50 were said in Japanese official communiques to have been shot down or destroyed on the ground, Three Japanese Army combat craft were reported missing.
Low lying and scattered cloud banks hampered visibility forcing the combat ants to engage in furious fights at altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. During yesterday's first Army raid at 10 o'clock in the morning a Japanese "suicide flight" accounted for the reported loss of between 12 and 15 Chinese pursuit craft. Three.of these Japanese machines are missing,
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