"While forced into inactivity. by poor weather in the Yangtze Valley Jepanese naval airmen carried out s operations in South China and along the new Lunghai Railway front on Friday, à Japanese naval spokesman revealed yesterday morning.
In the vicinity of Canton junks carrying military supplies and of were kapaha. gua bob on the East. River, while the recently-opened Canton-Kowloon motor highway was also attacked. Special attention was paid to bridges on the highway, the officer said.
Acting on a report that Chinese aeroplanes. were stationed at the Bocca Tigris aerodrome, naval planes to the field with the intention of bombing them. Investigation, however, showed that they were dummies, the spokesman stated.
"They were so cleverly built, however, that the bombers had to come
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