At $40 this afternoon, however, the alarm was again heard when four Japanese aeroplanes were sighted en route to Nanking. The machines proceeded instead to Tangyang and Changchow where they dropped bombs. They also flew along the Yangtze river, near Changchow, where they sank several junks, After the terrific bombing of the aerodrome and arsenal outside the South Gate, when six Japenese "planes let loose salvos of bombs in quick succession, from a height of 10,000 feet, it was generally believed that both places had been heavily damaged.
After this afternoon's second bombing, however, Reuter's correspondent inspected both places and found the arsenal working at full blast. The only effects of the bombing were fifty huge craters in the airfield, which workmen were quickly filling up—Reuter.
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