Continuing intensive attacks upon Chinese troop concentrations and bases in the Yangtze Valley sectors, naval sireraft on Thursday extended ce-operation to Japanese naval surface craft and land units, a communique issued by the China Seas Fleet command said yesterday.
Chinese military bases at Tehan, halfway between Kiukiang and Nanchang on the Nanzing Railway, Shih-men and other points were attacked. Heavy damage was claimed having been inflicted.
Overcoming poor visibility caused by low-lying clouds, naval aerial squadrons operating in South China. "completely destroyed" the Pitsungchwang railway bridge on the Canton-Hankow railway. Damage was also caused to the tracks and the bridges at Paishih, Shektan and Yuantan, the communique asserted.
All aircraft engaged in the operations returned to their bases safely, according to the announcement which remarked that Chinese aircraft were totally unseen throughout the day.
Moreover, the discovery of a plant in the French Concession where Chinese guerillas were printing bank notes was followed my its seizure by the French authorities, who, however, declined to. hand over the plant's employees to the Japanese.
The Japanese charge of speculation in yen notes apparently refers to Chinese exchange banks' purchase of yen for transfer to Shanghai, a practice resulting in numerous seizures lately by the Customs.
While the Japanese military authorities have often expressed their discontent with the situation in the British and French Concessions, the authorities of the latter areas say that they have tried their utmost to' preserve political neutrality, to consider the Japanese representations in specific cases and to introduce measures for the tightening up of regulations, Reports that Japanese businessmen have cabled to the Japanese Government appealing for a modification of the evacuation order cannot be confirmed, It is understood that the Japanese Residents Society will begin a series of conferences tomorrow to consider the situation.
The position of Japanese firms and residents in the British and French Concessions, meanwhile, remains normal,—Reuter,
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