Shanghai, Sept. 26.
Seven' Japanese' naval air force units on Saturday brought effective assistance to Japanese land forees pressing westwards along both banks of the Yangtze River, a communique issued by the Japanese China Seas Fleet command at noon yesterday declared, The attacking flights returned to their bases on several occasions to reload bombs and ammunition and resume operations, the announcement stated.
With an improvement in the weather in the Yangtze Valley, large bombing squadrons proceeded to Sungfow, 30 kilometres southwest of Macheng, in Hupeh, while Chinese troop concentrations at Tsinyang, half way between Anking and Wuhu on the southern bank of the Yangtze, were similarly attacked. foreigners. These include the French and the Japanese concessions anit the former British, German and Russian concession According to information obtained here defence works have been established within the former Japanese, German and Russian areas. The Japanese Club in Hankow is being fortified with sand bags, the reports said, Oh September 12, the British and French Ambassadors to China filed strong "representations with the Chiang Kai-shek regime against the continued fortification of the Hankow areas bordering on the French Con~ cession and the former British Con-
Soviet Officer and Men Cross Manchu Border Dairen, Sept. 23 A Soviet officer and ten soldiers crossed the Manchoukwo border line near Suifenho yesterday morning. They were engaged in reconnoitring: and photographing. A Manchoukuo border patrol fired on them and the fre way returned, but no casualties were reported—Reuter, taken their departure, the main group of 22 planes came up, In an endeavour to further confound the Chinese, the big carrier had moved from its usual station off Tangehlawan not far from Macao, to the southeast off the county of Hopu. Eight of all this air flotilla were bombers, 'They could do damage enough if they could only get over that public road, and fourteen were too few Mghting' craft to cover the less-easily manipulated bombing planes, The next ingenious trick of the Japanese was the detaching of two bombers from the main body, swinging to get round the flank of whatever force might come out to fight the bigger group. But even these tactics were anticipated and well met, The Chinese planes attacked and these two bombers were the first to drop, both jon fire, 'The battle raged over three counties but as the Chinese were said to have had 50 Aghting craft, the enemy did not have the remotest change of slipping by, Soon they Jwere on the run, the bombing planes letting loose all' of their torpedoes.
Where the other two Japanese ships that were fired by incendiary bullets: fell is uncertain, for they were shot down over a wild, rugged country, but fall they certainly did, A fifth Japanese plane ig believed either to have fallen or else to have had to make a forced landing, for one was missing when the check-up was made as the raiders went out to se
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