"The Chinese attempted to frustrate Japanese air attacks by moving military establishments to new sites close to properties of third Power nationals and thereby cause international complications in case they were attacked by the Japanese air force, "Japanese fliers, however, detected the new sites of Chinese military establishments and inflicted extensive damage on them by successive bombings since May 18.
Referring to a map of Canton on which were marked the Chinese military establishiepts and antiaircraft batteries, the—spokesman declared that the targets of Japanese air attacks have been forts, aero-, dromes, aeroplane assembling plants, munition factories, and other places purely military in character.
The accuracy of the Japanese bombing, he continued, had been such that "irreparable dámage" had been inflicted, on- those" Chinese military nae buildings,
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