"The consensus of opinion has been that the military damage caused by B. raids on interior cities has not been worth the expenditure of planes and pilots," he wrote. "It is a current joke among the foreigners. that it feasts the Japanese about U.S-$2,000 fo make a hole that the Chinese can ll'for two 'Mex' (about 60 cents JoMcial quotation), It Colfln said that the actual objectives of the bombers have been, eneral, acrodromes, railway terminals, arsenals and barracks," The almost uninterrupted service of. the Canton-Hankow. railway in spite repeated bombings in an. illustration of the ineffectiveness of aerial attack severing communications, he said, Aerial operations never " seriously threatened steamer trample "on the Yangtze either, he. said.
He reported personal inspection of Jone large railway yard the mo: ning After a raid by many heavy bombers which, according to the estimates, dropped 600-Kilo demolition bombs fand 60-kilo framentation bombs.
Bullets Do Not Stop Trains "Several engines were observed in 2 operation with their cabs riddled with bullet holes.
Practically the only loss of tite resulted from bombs of both sizes hitting a thickly mat shed and mu populated village of) rick houses. The] effect on the railway employees, many' for whom lost their families" there, was the opposite of that predicted by: Douhet. The war became. Intensely Personal and increased their will to oppose the enemy.
"Neither have attacks on Jdromes been a great success.
In the! nlerior the warnings have been received in sufficient time to clear the Nelds of aircraft. Soon after fof aerial. operations, provisions were! made for removing valuable tool equipment from the vicinity of! the folds. El dumps were widely separated and put underground, Surprisingly Small Loss "Even when planes have been! Jeaught on the field: by high altitude, Dombers the damage has been surprlsingly low, due mainly to inaecurate bombing.
"The theory that a "Aying fortress" or mutually protective formulations of Dombing planes removes the necesity for protective fighters has deinnitely been proved wrong in Chin: og T believe it has been in Spain. the outset of aerial "operations the Japanese sent large missions of heavy bombers from Taiwan against Nan-sing, Hangchow, Nanchang, ete.
Bombers Easy Targets "In about two weeks the Chinese} had shot down well over halt the original 69 bombers. With no combat experience and no practice on similar argots, they found that the unprotected "bombers, even in. formations, were easy prey for the fighters attack Ing Independently or in formation. Long. range bombing has become decidely unpopular against objectives protected by fighters. "Both sides now use fighters to protect their bombing missions. Foreign aviators have expressed the opinion that free machine guns are about 68 per cent. as eflective as synchronized Axed guns"
"Taken all in all, the statement that Jantleipation is greater than. reallzation" certainly applies to the effect on the objectives of aerial warfare," It, Comin concluded—United Press.
'Mx. Chang Kai-ngan, Minister of 'Communications, who' is on a trip {to inspect reconstruction activities the South-west, arrived in Kwening fom Chingta by plane "00 "Wen Hui Pao." Mr. Chang, who was accompanied by "Messrs. Ho Pel-hong and Kan Chieh-yung, respectively odors of the Szechuen Bureau of /Reconstruetion and Bureau of Fin-to Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of thence, was welcomed by General Lun Lanchow, Yun; the Yunnan provincial chair~ man, says the report. ie
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