Chinese military bases along the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway were subjected to attacks by Japanese naval aircraft on Thursday, the Japanese China Seas Fleet announced in its daily communique yesterday. Heavy damage to the railway as well as military depots at Chuchow, Chekiang, and Yushan, Kiangsi, was inflicted by these raids, the announcement said. Lishui, a troop concentration point, 78 kilometres south of Kinhwa, Chekiang, was also bombed, the announcement added.
Maintaining vigorous activity in south China, in support of army operations in Kwangsi, naval aircraft on Thursday raided Chuanhsien, on the Hunan-Kwangsi Railway in north-eastern Kwangsi; Kaochow, north-east of Liuchow peninsula, and Wuliyu, south of Lingshan, the communique asserted. The two latter towns are in Kwangtung province. On Wednesday, severe losses were inflicted upon.a fleet of more than 100 junks on the Vu River near Hsun-chow, also known as Kweiping, by a group of Japanese naval aircraft engaged in a combined bombing and reconnoitring flight, the announcement stated.
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