Tientsin, Oct. 3.
On receipt of information that leading Chinese Army commanders were conferring at Shihchiachwang, Japanese military planes yesterday bombed the Army headquarters in the Hopei city, the Japanese Gar-risen in North China announced to-day.
For an hour, Japanese aircraft tained bombs on the building as well as on other military establishments in Shihchiachwang, completely destroying them, according to the communique.
"Numerous" other planes, discovering about 49000 Chinese troops, retreating from Laiyuan, in Hopei, io Wutaishan, Shansi, bombed and strafed them continuously for five hours, inflicting severe losses, the announcement said.
Also bombed was Tayungchen, where the Japanese planes observed a concentration of Shansi provincial troops—Domei.
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