Shanghai, May 23.
Flying deep afield, 34 naval aircraft on Saturday bombed Chumatien, an important station north of Han-Jkow on the Peking-Hankow Railway. A total of 240 bombs of various sizes were said to have been dropped by. the Japanese airmen upon the station, freight cars. tracks and Yasoline and munitions dumps. The Station buildings, the communique said, was demolished, as were 40 freight cars nearby. Direct hits were scored on gasoline and munitions stored near the station. Numerous explosions were seen.
No. Chinese machines met the raiders, all of whom returned safely their bases.
Another unit of the naval air force, meanwhile, continued to assist Japa-
30,000,000 Refugees In China Hankow, May 22.
'The number of Chinese war refugees was put at 30,000,000 in a statement today by Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, Chairman of the National Relief Committee and former' Chinese Ambassador in Tokyo. War refugees at present registered and taken care of by various provincial and municipal refugee camps, he added, totalled 1,000,000, ranging from" one-month-old abies to 70-year-old men and nese columns operating in the Hsuchow area, Chinese troop' concen~ trations southeast of the fallen city were heavily bombed throughout the jay.
Mopping-up operations of the naval landing party in and near Lienyun, fon the coast of northern Kiangsu, fand on the islands of Tunglien and Silien have been completed, the com-[munique claimed, Mainiand Bomb Amoy, May 22.
Japenese planes today carried out heavy bombing raids om the mainand across from Amoy, presumably on concentrations of Chinese troops.
Japanese warships bombarded the heights on the mainland near. the forelgr all installations, and it was later reported that the Asiatic Petro-Teum Company godowns and oil tanks had been "damaged in the bombardment. It was impossible to ascertain the actual extent of the
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