Planes Attack Military Trains at Wusih Important Chinese positions and concentration points along the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, Chinese positions in Hungjao and Pootung. and the severing of Chinese lines of communication featured Thursday's bombing operations carried out by the Japanese naval air arm, a naval communique revealed st morning.
While bombing Chinese positions to the south of Soochow creek, the communique said, Japanese ndvai "planes "destroyed railway tracks, the station building, a locomotive shed and several military trains at Wusih, on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway." The announcement added that other Chinese concentration points along the line were bombed Two camouflaged motor trucks, the communique pointed out, were strafed near Hungjao, as was another ordinary motor lorry.
Regarding the bombing of Pootung, the communique said that the raiders "thoroughly destroyed" Chin litary positions at—Yangchingchen, ihehiao and Chinchiachiaochen, near the Machiapen Creek At ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, the communique also revealed, "Japanese bluejackets who landed on Yuhuan Island off Wenchow in Chekiang Province to cai Out the blockade, engaged Chines soldiers and Paoantui in a bitter two-hour battle The Chinese, according to the communique, "fled, abandoning several score dead, One bluejacket" the communique, added, "was seriously injured."
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