No Warships Damaged by Bombs, Says Spokesman Tokyo, July 21.
Denying a Chinese claim that Chinese aeroplanes bombed and sunk 20 Japanese warships and severely damaged 18 others, Rear-Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, spokesman of the Navy Office, declared today that the Japanese fleet bes suffered no damage from Chinese air raids.
Rear-Admiral Noda admitted that ese planes had raided Japanese hips repeatedly, but not bomb hit any panese warship, he elzimed.
He recalled that Chinese planes dropped bombs aimed at the cruiser Idzumo, flagship of the Japanese squadron in Shanghai, "no less than during the carly stage of hostilities, but none hit the lázumo, he asserted Rear-Admiral Noda said Chi se pilots are "very poor marksmen He revealed that the only damage offered by the Japanese fleet was Que to the explosion of mines, which slightly damaged one torpedo boat and a mine sweeper, while one small boat also was hit by a mine near Anking late im June. The boat sank, resulting in the deaths of two Japanese correspondents and several others, sed. A bomb dropped by a Chinese plane fell near a military transport, slightly damaging it, he stoted.—Domei. attitude towards the fre: incident on
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