In a raid upon Sinyang, a naval flying squadron led by Lieut.-Commander Hitoshi Tanamachi, suuccessfully blew up the power plant and godowns near the railway station of the important Honan city along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, an earlier communique claimed.
Munitions were observed exploding, causing intense conflagrations that emitted dense black smoke, according to the announcement.
"Highly accurate" bombing attacks on Chinese field artillery positions and troop concentrations as well as motorized transport columns in the area east of Kwangtsi in Hupeh was also claimed.
All machines engaged in operations in Central China returned to their respective bases safely, the communiques asserted.
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