Shanghai, Dec. 14.
Striking far inland, Japanese naval jeircraft at dusk on Sunday raided Sian, capital of Shenst, where exactly year earlier Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Iwas kidnapped by mutinous_ troops Junder Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang.
Bombs were dropped on the scro-Jdrome, where three "small" machines were hit and wrecked, Two hangars, Jan aeroplane repair plant, and several barracks were destroyed, a naval spokesman claimed yesterday.
Night raids were carried out_for the frst time against Nanking on Sun-Jday night, when the Japanese bombfers sought out their objectives with the ald of Verey lights.
Chinese forts along the northern bank of the Yangtze were also subjected to a vigorous bombing on Sunday, ho added.
Tu the raid on Nanchang, on Satur-Jéay, Japanese planes shot down three [Chinese machines, a complete check revealed, the spokesman asserted, The [Chinese " Military Aeronautical Engineering School also was destroyed, he said.
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