Warships Greeted With Fire Trying to Enter Port Hongkong, Feb. 5.
Several Japanese warships were driven off by Chinese artillery fire in an unsuccessful attempt to enter Amoy harbour yesterday, Chinese reports said here to-day, Chinese officials in Amoy, after an investigation of the result of the Japanese air raid on that city on Thursday, said that 22 civilians had been killed and 63 residences destroyed. The Japanese dropped 36 bombs ug the raid, reports said.
Meanwhile, in south China, one Japanese plane was brought down near Tehching, Kwangsi, and another at Tongawan, near Macao, yesterday, Chinese reports said—United Press.
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