Tokyo, Oct. 2
Japanese naval planes were active in carrying out bombing and reconnaissance expeditions in the areas along the Canton-Hankow Railway, the Tung River and Si River in South China on Friday, according to a communique issued by the Navy Section of the Imperial General Headquarters this afternoon.
In the vicinity of Yungyun Chinese troops were seen on the move and the raiders were met with heavy antiaircraft fire there. An iron' bridge south of Yingtak on the railway, previously demolished by aerial bombs, had not been repaired, the communique said.
The raiders bombed barracks at Kaoyang and caused heavy damage, the statement said. Hangars at the aerodrome there were said to have been marked with American flags.
Bridges near Sinfeng and Chinese positions at Linfeng were bombed, the satement concluded.—Doniei.
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