New York, Oct. 13.
The Japanese were attempting the suppression of American-made newsreels showing Nipponese bombers attacking Nanking, the "Motion Picture Daily" said to-day.
Mr, Siegfried F. Lindstrom, pur-portedly a representative of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in New York, yesterday attempted to purchase a Universal Newsreel showing Japanese aeroplanes bombing the Central Hospital and the Nanking power plant. The film is also said to show Chinese downing Japanese planes and capturing Japanese pilots.
"It was admitted that the proposed purchase of the film was for the purpose of suppression," the movie daily said. It added, that Universal had flatly and unequivocally refused to entertain the proposal—United Press.
Five Chinese aeroplanes, out of the six that gave combat to Japanese bombers over Nanking on Tuesday afternoon, were shot down, a Japanese naval spokesman claimed yesterday afternoon. One Japanese machine was lost in the encounter, he added.
The raid on the Chinese capital, which was directed against the aerodrome outside the city wall, was one of a series of eight staged during ihe day by the Japanese naval air force against Chinese military bases.
Attacking the Kwangteh aerodrome near Hangchow, the Japanese machines damaged hangars and other buildings, according to the spokesman. Dummy aircraft were displayed on the ground, but these were not sufficiently cleverly built to draw our bombs," the officer said.
Temporary matshed hangars at the Wuhu aerodrome were destroyed, while heavy damage was believed to have been inflicted upon Chinese artillery positions in Pootung.
Sunkiang station was bombed and the railway tracks damaged, while Chinese troop corcentratións at Changshu and Kating were also the Object of attention from Japanese] raiders, The car in which Flight-Lieuienant 5. S. Murray and three companions were travelling when their convoy was machine-gunned by a Japanese plane on Tuesday, was yesterday photographed in Shanghai. In the top picture, the Union J ick which was painted on the roof is shown.
Below is the door of the cai which Lieutenant Murray was holding when loreed to seek safety in a ditch. The glass broken yy a bullet can be distinguished.
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