TOTAL of eight Japanese Hongkong, Feb. 25. planes were destroyed by the Chinese Air Force yesterday in widely scattered aerial activity, Chinese reports said here to-day.
Four of the Japanese planes were said to have been shot down by Chinese pursuit planes in Kwangtung Province while the other four were reported to have been destroyed at the aerodrome at Sinsiang, on the Peiping-
Hankow Railway north of Chengchow.
A Japanese munitions train also was claimed to have been blown up during the Chinese raid on Sinsiang, recently occupied by the Japanese in their drive down the Pinghan line toward the Lunghai Railway and the Yellow River.
Hongkong, Feb. 25.
A total of eight Japanese planes were destroyed by the Chinese Air Force yesterday in widely scattered aerial activity, Chinese reports said here to-day.
Four of the Japanese planes w said to have been shot down by Chinese pursuit planes in Kwangtung Province while the other four were reported to have been destroyed at the Aerodrome at Sinsiang, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway north of Chengchow.
A Japanese munitions train also was claimed to have been blown up during the Chinese raid on Sinsiang, recently occupied by the Japanese in their drive down the Pinghan line toward the Lunghai Railway and the Yellow River.
Japanese fears of further Chinese air raids on Formosa resulted in the withdrawal of two Japanese destroyer flotillas from South China waters yesterday, other Chinese reports said. The Japanese warships were said to have been ordered to Japan to obtain additional anti-aircraft guns. Other reports, however, pointed out, that the warships possibly had sailed further to sea to tighten the Japanese naval patrol off the Bouth China coast—United Press.
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