Planes yesterday afternoon staged a similar raid an Sungkiang, on the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, and destroyed à locomotive and several freight cars, the statement added.
Four Chinese field guns were, according to the communique "blown into bits" by bombs dropped over the' Chenju area. Heavy damage, the announcement said, was caused to the Chinese defence works in Chapei.
A long bridge at Tsipaochen, near Hangchow, was badly damaged, Railway Bombed Japanese planes also bombed stations of the Soochow-Kashing railway. Nine bombs were dropped at the Outer Signal of Pingwang Station at 9 am, wrecking the track and damaging two passenger coaches, At 2.50 pin., Japanese aeroplanes opened machine-gun fire on Patse Station and two passenger coaches were damaged while one locomotive was slightly damaged. Many persons in and around these two stations were killed and wounded.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.