Shanghai, Oct, 16. down by Japanese pursuit feraft near Shasi on the Yangtze, the Japanese China Seas Fleet confirmed in a communique issued in Shanghai yesterday. All se pursuit machines returned to their base safe~ 1y, the communique stated.
Damage sustained by the Japanese naval establishment at Hankow as a result of the raid was "very small," the announcement added. About 50 Chinese coolies working in" areas northwest of Hankow were either killed or wounded in the bombardment, the communique said, The Chinese craft carried on their Bombing operations from an altitude Of 6,000 metres, according to the Japanese announcement, Soviet Russians manned at east tone of the 20 Chinese bombers which staged a raid on Hankow yesterday afternoon, Japanese authorities Hankow ascertained, "according The mangled bodies of two out of three men comprising the crew of the: Soviet-built 8. B. "bomber downed by a Japanese naval pursuit machine, which engaged single-handed nine hostile craft, were located by Japanese Army forces near the wreckage of their craft in the neighbourhood. of Ilukow un the east bank of the Han River in Hupeh province, "Both were Occidentals, and were identified Russians, a fold dispatch stated, The third member of the downed craft's crow bailed out with his para~ chute and fled into the woods. He was the object of an intensive mane bunt, Soviet near Sh outside Japanese occupied territory.
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