Shanghai, Nov. 25.
Cities in Hunan embed kow, Nov. 24, Closely following on the heels of the westward transfer ut the Chinese Government offices, Japanese acroplanes this afternoon bombed Chanysha, the capital of Hunan Province, ud also Hengyang, an important city southern Hunan, Airaruid sirens were sounded het 150 pan, to-day when four Japai ese planes were sighted on the Kiangsi-Hupeh. border, fying over Nanfeng and Hsiushus, in the direetion of Hankow and Changsha, Chinese planes immediately took to the air to patrol the sky, but the raiders, instead of visiting Hankow, went to Changsha and Hengyang, Vombing both cities.
Meanwhile, a steady stream of reinforcements from the south-western Japanese naval planes, raiding the Chowehiakow aerodrome in Honan province on Monday for the second time in as many days, destroyed 14 rounded Chinese planes and shot down five more in a furious "dogfight," the Japanese fleet authorities announced in a communique yester morning The Japanese "sea hawks" showered the air base with bombs and engaged in spectacular duels with Chinese pilots who went aloft in a tuille attempt to drive off the raiders.
Tu their first raid on the inland air-fole last Sunday, the Japanese bombers demolished eleven' Chinese pilines and damaged nine others.
Reporting successive overwhelming victories in aerial combats, the fleet communique revealed that three out fof six Chinese planes. which chal-
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