Shanghai, Sept. 24.
Japanese naval bombers sank a 740- ton Chinese gunboat, the Chuyy, on the upper Yangtze hear Lankichen, 1§ Kilometres upstream from Hwang-shi-kang, on Thursday, a belated report reaching the naval headquarters here claimed yesterday, Scouting planes reported that Chinese troops were building fortifica-Vions around Kichun. A large number of dummy soldiers apparently made of straw were sighted on the ortiNeation walls, the report said.
Japanese naval air squadrons bom: bed Chinese troops along the Yani wwe River and inflicted "a great de: of damage" on Chinese positions, a cording to a naval communique issued yesterday at noon,
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