"Heavy damage" was again inflicted on Chinese military establishments in South and Central China by Japanese naval planes on Tuesday, a Japanese naval spokesman al nounced yesterday.
One squadron, the spokesman said, bombed the Tachito aerodrome at the foot of the Purple Mountain, in Nanking, at 1.45 p.m. and while over Nanking, the Japanese planes were attacked' by several Chinese fighters, one of which was brought down. Another squadron the same afternoon bombed the Kuyuan airfield, south-east of Nanking, destroying a hangar and two Curtiss-Hawk fighting planes on the field.
Other units meanwhile raided the airfield at Wuhu and destroyed a hangar, four "planes and fuel tanks. A Curtiss-Hawk machine was also shot down. In the morning the hangars and Army barracks were destroyed at and near the Kwang-teh aerodrome in Anhwei, On Monday Japanese naval planes bombed Canton-Hankow railway bridges south of Kongtsun, and near Pachiang. Another Curtiss-Hawk, the spokesman said, was brought down by the raiders in an encounter near Canton. Several Fiat planes, he added, were strafed by the raiders at the Tsungía aerodrome. In the afternoon, the planes continued to bomb the Kongtsun bridge. Bombs were also dropped at several points along the—Kowtang-Yenchantao stretch of the line,
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