Chinese Army barracks in Nanking were set ablaze by Japanese aerial bombardment at about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a Japanese naval communique claimed last night. Severe damage was also caused, according to the statement, to the Tahsiochang airdrome, which suffered badly from aerial bombardment on the previous day.
No Chinese planes challenged the raiders, but the city's anti-aircraft batteries were "unusually active," although all the Japanese pienes returned safely to their base.
Naval planes at 2.30 o'clock damaged the station buildings and a locomotive and several freight cars at Peicha, on the Soochow-Kashing Railway.
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