The welcoming party included Commander Lui t the wharf Neyrone, Italian Consul - General:
Cot Enrico Andreini Commander of Grenadiers; Lieut.-Col. Hom cipini, Italian Military Attache; Com mander Riggio, director of Shang! aseists, and other Italian naval and military officers and Fascist leader Mr. Tani, Mr, Noritake Yoshioka, Senior Japanese Consul; Mr. Masusaburo Amano, President of the Japan-Residents' Corporation; Mr. [Shigerou Yoscano, Secretary of the European and Asiatic Affairs Bureau of the Tokyo Foreign Office, who was sent here to conduct the mission to Japan; Lieut. Takao Fujino, adjutant on the staff of Vice-Admiral Hasegawa; Major Minoru Shimoyama, Japanese Army staff officer: Col. Akira Muto, Assistant Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army, and Capt. Zenshiro Hoshina, of Japanese the Army As the: Italian delegation landed the ships crew lined up and gave the Fascist salute and Fascist cheer.
On the dock a contingent of about 50 Japanese school children stood Japanese and Italian flags.
At Hankow, four direct hits were comingly" scored upon grounded hi flames were seen shoot-up from the ground There s. no aerial l engagement at Hankow, the spokesman s Another raid was effec ed against the Chusheng aerodrome where the runways were bombed and damaged, he added
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