Japanese pursuit planes speeding towards Hankow ahead of the bombing aircraft, Chinese reports declare, were challenged by Chinese pursuit planes east of Hankow, The Japanese bombers, it is stated, immediate ly turned back without attempting! to bomb their objectives here.
Simultaneously, Chinese pursuit planes were taking off from another aerodrome, the reports continue, "and. these intercepted—the Japanese bombers at Kiukiang, bring-jing down three of them.
While Chinese official figures give the number of Japanese planes parfleipating in the raid as 36 pursuit planes and 18 heavy bombers, in-{formation from, independent sources indicates that the Japanese raiding [squadron comprised 26 pursuit planes and eight bombers, According to Chinese oficial reports, one Chinese machine was damaged, but it is reliably learned {that two Chinese machines crashed, tone of the pilots landing safely by his parachuie—Reuter,
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