Canton, Sept, 11, From August 28 to September 11, most of the Japanese raiding planes came from an air base on Samtso Island, which is off the County of Chungshan, all of them being landplanes, With somewhat inferior ships, and lacking the experience of their brethren from a carrier, these pilots took many beatings, Fortunately for the Chinese, they could not hit anything as big as a city block when they remained high out of danger, and when they came down where they could hardly miss it they wanted to, they got nicked by the archies, Almost every day the Japanese lost a plane, and what they accomplished on the whole was nothing "to write home about," The flyers from the aircraft carrier had broken up the approach to a bridge at Chuentien but bent rails were straightened-out, and cuts in the roadbed filled in while these amateurs were toying with their bombs. Soon hundreds of tons of freight that had been accumulating at the Canton end of the run began to move north to Hankow and way points, A few days ago, though, the carrier came back, and the pilots are getting real troublesome again, To keep the Hankow line from operating is the ambition of the Japanese, To stop trains from running on the Canton-Kowloon Railway is a matter of minor importance. Some days this line is left entirely alone; on others it is bombed, but almost invariably in a few hours everything is in tip-top shape, Public highways, specially those paralleling the railways, come in for a little bombing and machine-gunning now and then, but a hole made with an expensive bomb is filled in by coolies who get 80 cents for doing it, so there is no gain for the Japanese, Transportation over these highways generally goes on at night.,
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