Shanghai, Mar. 28.
Eighty Japanese naval planes, com= prising bombers and pursuit craft, Sesterday afternoon raided Hankow jin the biggest aerial operation yet carried out in that ares, a Japanese naval spokesman announced at a rps conference yesterday evening.
Hankow, Mar. 28 'Two Biltish naval ofoers escaped the mass Japanese air raid on Hankow and Wuchang—yesterday—the biggest alr attack experienced by' these two cities since the start of hos~ tilities—by only a matter of an hour for 80, it was revealed to-dai They left Wuchang East Station, the northern terminus of the Canton.
Hankow Railway, ju a passenger train for the south shortly before the visitors arrived and subjected the station to an intensive bombing.
The oflcers, Lieutenant H.CJ. Morea of the gunboat Cockchafer, end Lieutenant J.C.A. Ingram of the Peterel, are proceeding home on. eave, after having been stationed on. the Yangize for some time. the raid yesterday, wat chers from the former British Concasion in Hankow had a good view of the approach of the many Japanese planes from down river, Before Feaching the former British Bund, Toud detonations were heard, which shook buildings and rattled windows! throughout the city.
"At first it was. thought that the raiders were: bombing the {qrelgn areas of Hankow but. later, when alls of smoke appeared in the sky cross. the river, It was learned that the Wuchang East Station and the Wuchang aerodrome were the ob-
The visitors wore kept to an extremely high altitude because of the intensive anti-airenaft fire, Later, the raiders made a beeline for, the Hankow air-feld, on which they dropped nearly 160 bombs—Reuter.
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