Nanking, Oct. 6.
In a streak of vivid orange flame, and leaving a trail of black smoke behind, a Japanese bomber this morning crashed near the Kwang-hua men aerodrome and marked the climax of a brief raid on the capital.
The alarm was sounded at 10 o'clock and, 20 minutes. later, twelve Japanese lanes appeared in the east and flew across the South City towards the west. They then turned and took up a position in single file preparatory to bombing the Chinese aerodrome, outside Kwanghuamen, in a series of dives. Chinese antiaircraft kept silent, waiting for the "planes to come down within range of their tre.
The first Japanese bomber swooped down, dropped its bombs and went away. The heavy anti-aircraft fire caught the second bomber, however, just at the end of its dive and it crashed near the aerodrome, in a mass of flame and smoke.
A third bomber, apparently badly shaken, zigzagged unsteadily in mid-air for some time before it finally regained control and flew away. The other nine "planes soared upward and left the capital in a south-easterly. direction.
Twelve Chinese pursuit planes then cruised the sky to watch for the further movements of the visitors. The all-clear signal was sounded at 1230.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.