accordance with the new "romazi" system of phonetics which ig being encouraged by the Japanese Education Ministry, the name of the Chichibu Maru, N.Y.K. trans-Pacific liner, has been changed to the Titibu Maru, according to a report and photograph appearing in the "Japan Advertiser." The names of two other N.Y.K. ships have been similarly adjusted.
Hankow, Mar. 6.
Chinese anti-aircraft batteries gave an extremely good account of themselves yesterday when eighteen Japanese planes raided Chengchow, important city in Honan, situated" at the junction of the Peiping-Hankow and Lunghai Railways, according to Chinese reports received here.
Owing to bad weather conditions, the visitors, who appeared simulttaneously from the north and east, are said to have been compelled to fly extremely low, making unusually large targets for the Chinese ani aircraft guns. As a result, the Chinese claim, five Japanese planes were hit and damaged, and were obliged to make forced landings on the north bank of the Yellow River.
Not relishing the hot reception, the remaining thirteen machines flew southward in two groups, and bombed a railway station seven miles south of Chengchow and also Yuhsien, fifty miles southwest of the city. Later, Chinese sources state, the raiders returned and- bombed the Lunghai Railway station west of Chengchow, destroying the station office and seriously injurying the station master. The casualties are said to have totalled four killed and five wounded.
In the afternoon, another group of Japanese planes raided the aerodrome at Yuhsien. Chinese reports claim that one Japanese machine was shot down and one Japanese pilot captured.
Cities along the Yangtze have been spared during the past four days because of bad weather conditions and occasional thunderstorms.
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