Flying deep afield, 34 naval aircraft on Saturday bombed Chumatien, an important station north of Hankow on the Peking-Hankow Railway. A total of 240 bombs of various sizes were said to have been dropped by the Japanese airmen upon the station, freight cars, tracks and gasoline and munitions dumps. The station buildings, the communique said, was demolished, as were 40 ight cars nearby. Direct hits were scored on gasoline and muni tions stored near the station. Numerous explosions were seen.
No Chinese machines met the raiders. all of whom returned safely to their bases.
Another unit of the naval air force, meanwhile, continued: to assist Japanese columns operating in the Hsuchow area, Chinese troop concen= trations southeast of the fallen city were heavily bombed throughout the Following his "old practice of protecting his own troop Col, Takahashi said, Gen, Chiang attempted to evacuate his own divisions, On May 13 and 14, Gen, Chiang assembled 80 trains in the vicinity of Hsuchowfu, (Continued on page 7) day.
Mopping-up operations of the naval landing party in and near Lienyun, on the coast of northern Kiangsu, and on the islands of Tunglien and Silien have been completed. the communique claimed.
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