Seven Passengers Injured Nanking, July 14.
Japanese naval aircraft bombed and sank a Chinese gunboat, the Kia ning, a 200-ton vessel, in Poyang Lake on Wednesday afternoon, according to reports received by Japanese commanders here this afternoon.
"Japanese army and navy planes cooperated in a general attack on Shihtzeshan fort on the bank of Poyang Lake at 8 o'clock this morning, the messages said.
Warships on the lake concentrated their fire on Chinese positions for several hours while army and navy planes flew at a low altitude and showered bombs, the messages stated Chinese observation posts and pillboxes on the mountain side were blown up by aerial bombs and Chinese positions behind the mountain also were severely damaged, the dispatches claimed.—Domei.
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