Macao, Apr. 9.
Reports that the Chinese " forces have retaken Kongmoon are premaiture, "Heavy fighting is still in progress, according to reports reaching here, and artillery and aerial bombing was clearly audible in Shekki this morning. The Japanese forces. apparently striking inland towards Wuchow.
Japanese planes, based on Sancho Island, are most active, and can be heard from Macao. A small detachment of Kwangsi troops is reported to have arrived in the neighbourhood Widespr ead Air Activity Japanese Claim 41 Planes Wrecked in Kunming Raid; Chinese Bomb Nanchang Shanghai, Apr. 10.
MAJOR setback was inflicted on Chinese efforts to reorganize their shattered air force on Saturday when Japanese naval bombers raided Kunming aerodrome in Yunnan when 41 Chinese ple ses on the ground and in the air were claimed having been destroyed. More than 20 Japanese naval aircraft, commanded by Licut. Commander Toshiie Irisa, staged a lightning raid on Kunming late on Saturday afternoon, a communique issued at 3 lovelock yesterday afternoon by the Japanese China Seas Fleet said.
Out of approximately 100 planes fon the ground 15 were set on fire while 20 others were destroyed by bombs, the communique claimed. Seventeen Chinese combat machines rose from the ground to repel the Japanese bombers but six of these were shot down, according to the announcement.
The raid lasting from 415 to 425 o'clock was one of the shortest on record. "All Japanese machines engaged in the attack returned to their base safely, the communique asserted.
"The Japanese. attack on Kunming came when weather conditions im= proved after a long. spell of adverse atmespherial conditions, according (othe announcement, Revealing for the first time in several months the presence of Chinese aircraft within "a 800-kilometre radius of Shanghai, the same communique stated that 9 Chinese machine grounded near Tungtai, 260 llometres northwest of Shanghai, iad_been machine gunned and. set on fire at noon on Saturday.
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