A fleet of "mote than ten" well-armed Chinese steam vessels and junks on Sunday was "destroyed" off Macao by Japanese men-of-war, the headcarters of the Japanese China Sca Fleet announced yesterday morning.
The Chinese ships, the statement said, "maintained a provocative attitude towards the Japanese warship:
white speed boat was si escaped into Portuguese waters.
communique asserted thai several white speed boats have been recently observed plying from "their base in Macao" to the mouth of the Pearl River Armed Chinese junks, it was] further claimed, make their base in Chinese pursuit machines and driven from the aerodrome. Crossing ihe Yangize as they retreated they dropped ten bombs in the vicinity of ihe commercial aerodrome at Nanhu, or South Lake.
Shortly after 3 a.m. another batch of three heavy bombers were sighted approaching Hankow, coming from down river. They were met by Chinese pursuit planes and turned back without dropping any bombs.
Another Japanese air raid was staged on Hankow yesterday evening. It was the fifth raid to be staged on ihe temporary capital during the day.
Full details of this last raid are not yet available, though Chinese pursuit planes were seen to engage them severely. The four previous raids yesterday failed to do any material damage, all the bombs falling wide of aerodrome, the apparent Japan cbjective.—Reuter.
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