Shanghai, Sept. 1.
Seventeen Britihbult Gloster Gladiator combat biplanes, forming the entire Chinese force that rose iment Japanese naval irratt raiding Namyung, an important base on the Kwangtung-Hunan borden, "were efnielyaacertaiicd™ to: have been hot down "in a fleece "combat. "on Tuesday, a communique issued by the Japanese 'China Seas Fleet command jyeserday "claimed. 'Two. Japanese Lieut. Hideo Telima, senor prods, machines, one' of them piloted
were Tost in the engagement, the an. notneement' "osieried, "All other Machines, it added, returned to thee Fespeetive bases savely. {Chinese "reports claimed that six Japanese machines had been dawned by'10 Chinese combat "planes at Name yung.
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