Hankow, Jan. 6.
Hankow experienced another raid to-day when 38 Japanese machines, comprising 22 bombers and sixteen pursuit aeroplanes, appeared early this afternoon, with the aerodrome as their objective, The alarm was sounded at 12.20, and twenty minutes later the planes were sighted coming from the southwest, in close formation. They crossed the Yangtze River above Wuchang and flew towards the north-east.
Heavy anti-aircraft fire greeted the invaders, and the sky was dotted with puffs of smoke from bursting shells. -None of the planes was hit.
After their arrival, the planes quickly scattered, fifteen of them heading towards the south-east, in the direction of Wuchang, while the rest proceeded in two groups towards the aerodrome.
There were a few Chinese planes at the aerodrome, but, with the exception of one, which was undergoing repairs at the time, all of them succeeded in taking off when the alarm was first sounded.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.