Objective of Military, Operations Hankow, July 10. rem Japanese warships steamed up river this morning and shelled Kiukiang, whereupon Chinese bombing planes immediately took off and heavily bombed the Japanese ships, sinking two of them, according to Chinese military headquarters today. The third warship steamed down river, thus easing the situation at Kiukiang, it was stated. The British river gunboat Cockchafer and the U.S.S. Monocacy steamed three miles up river, above Kiukiang, in order to avoid the shelling and bombing. Squadrons of Chinese bombing planes hopped off at dawn this morning for Anking to bomb a concentration of Japanese warships there. According to Chinese reports, one of the vessels was sunk and another badly damaged.
Chinese and Japanese troops fighting on the south bank of the Yangtze More Trouble in River have now shifted in the direction of Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi Province, with the Japanese
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