Nanking, Jan, 2.
Despite' poor visibility caused mist, @ Japanese naval alr squadron tinder the direction of Commander romeo Koku, this morning raided Chinese aerodromes at Changsha and Meanwhile, other naval aircraft shot down by anti-aircraft Are, two other raiders were brought down by: raided aerodromes at" Ningpo and Bombs were dropped on others shot down in aerial combats man said yesterday that the Chines Yapanese pursuit planes, a. Japanese the two by" Japanese "machines during the assembly" factory at the naval spokesman' announced last "Trains and tracks were bombed by raid on Nanchang yesterday morning aerodrome, outside Canton, hight. The Chinese alder niwnber stil! other naval planes on the strategi- Is denied here. The Chinese Aviation brad eer demolished, cally Important Canton-Hankow Rail- Headquarters, in 9 statement to-day, An ale on the sds for the font et, tomb roped ey te ch Most bombs dropped by: the Chin=
Chinese junks carrying military Because of the low ceiling re, res oat chiaoalrdrome, the spokesman ax-supplies were sunk by aerial bombs] vailing, eried. One missile, however, set on the Japanese planes de fat Samabul. very low when bombing Nanchang Iso conducted against 4°E gasoline depot, white one ded Japanese plane was damay aerodrome. After dropping their eat bombs on the airfield, the Japanese ieinity of Pakow T}ea. No casualties were caused, the Hankow, Jan. 27, ow, the spokesman declared. spokesman stated, About {on Japanese aeroplanes} cloud-bank where, 27.,|'planes immediately went up behind Mangchow Raided after' a brief visited the Wuhan area shortly' after Bombings In Kwantung engagement with Chinese pursuit n the frst raid on Hangchow since nine o'clock this morning and. drop-planes, they left.
Hongkong. Jan. 29, Occupation, three Chinese bed about sixty "bombs on the alr "The Chinese side suffered towns and villages throughout machines made their appenranee over field "at Hankow and a" smaller casualties, and. tio aeroplanes.were Kerangtung are sll subjected weeiaig the. lakeside city" at 330. otlock number in Hanyang. in the vicinity damaged. No damage was done on Japanese "aeroplanes, esterday" afternoon," Dome diss of the arse Particularly those along the Canton: Patch, reported, "One of the 'A Ford plane on the Hankow alr the ground with the exception eld, which, 'Chinewe auarterssiate, RMAll Howe, which was se on fire Hankow Railway. which during the ¥ 2s brought down by antis Post week hav apparently bees. the fe. and. crashed. in' th had previously been damaged. was objective rather than the River. while the others fed without completely wrecked. This. according causing damage, oflzcial Chinese quarters, Altera alarms in Cant Chinese Lose "Two Planes only damage done, Chinese anti-aircraft suns keet the more than tem bombs in the vichy ight Japanese aeroplanes: dropped Canton, Jan. 2 taken as matier of course.
Hankow, Jan. 27, Twice this week near by airfields visitors at a fair height and forced of the air field and at Shekph, north Chinese circles here admit that the have been bombed, in each case the them to break formation for the sake of Tungshan, at 145 this. afternoon. is being audible. thraughou of safety. The Japanese have not The bombs fell with deafening ex: Dut farmers in adjacent fold one this in any previous raids on plosions, windows of fon both occasions carried on their Hankow. houses throughout: Tungshan. labours unperturbed.
'The first batch of six planes sout "The Italian Consulate, situated on capital, while a third bomber made brought near' the Tu the second instance soldiers at up Into two groupe of three after the outskirts of Tungshan, suffered forced. landing at Anking, Tungshan continued to play football bombing the air Meld. One squadron q crack in the wall ay a result of of Anhwe, because of engine beneath a sky" dotted with ntl: turned northward towards the Pel the reverberations. Several fires Repairs were made and this' plane ping-Hankow Railway. and the other broke out. returned 10 its base t6-da Although no regular passonge southward. towards Chiaokow, eight Chinese anti-aircraft guns thunder trains on the Can 'Chinese reports claim that thirty miles up the Han River. where the ed into action. Pulls of smoke broke Japanese. planes were destroyed on have' yet t been attacked, foreign Yee Tsoong Tobacco Ca. have a 1 around the raiders but no hits ihe ground during the attack on the ports to-day state that a freight train large cigarette factory. was hit on Tuesday near the Kwang Both squadrons then returned and ig aso claimed that Chinese believed to be slight, with tung. border. were Joined by more planes. but the probably no casualty raft made three raids yesterday While the was taking refuge fanti-aircraft fire war 0. intense and Jon Wuhu, bombing the Japanese acroin a tunnel, the nose of the Tocomodangerously close that the raiders Communications Bombed tive, the only the train not rome and also Japanese positions split up into ones and twos. They Shanuthal, Jan. 28 under shelter, received a direct hit between Wuhu and' Lukang, to. the then flew to Hanakang and unloaded east of Wahu, The Chinese' alreratt Japanese naval air raiders on Sun-from' bomb, The damage was not bombs which. from a distance, apare also stated to have given valuable day gain concentrated upon the serious, and mo one was injured. peared to fail on the side of a hilt dlesteuction of Chinese tines of mill= Meanwhile, considerable interest 4 support fo the Chinese troops operat-the open country. tary. supplies and communications, a centres on the motor trip from Inge east of Wuhu, The third Wuhan city, Wuchang, Chinese despatches received here spokesman for the service said yeskow of he two Britons, Captai was apparently ignored—Reuter.
Boxer, of the Lincolnshire. to-day assert that the Japanese forces fare using one division of tops for Japanese Claims vital railway and Mr. adrive westward towards. Hotel ssu tion in rihern Kiangsu, bombs Chariton, Shanghai, Jan. 28. were dropped on both the north and
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