The balloon floated peacefully up to a high altitude but was promptly made a target by Chinese rifles.
Within half-an-hour the target was hit; it crumpled up and fell ignominiously to the ground.
A dense smoke screen was laid across the western battle front yesterday afternoon. It was obviously not laid from the air by planes and seemed to be deliberately caused by the burning of some substance on the ground. Whether the smoke screen was sent up by Chinese or Japanese was impossible to determine definitely from east of the railroad tracks.
When a huge Japanese tri-motored monoplane cruised low around the
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