Tokyo, May 26. s fully prepared to meet air. raids, Rear-Admiral Noda. spokesman {or the Navy. told foreign press correspondents today 1 have no idea", he said, "why ihe Chinese planes which raided southern Kyushu on May 20 dropped handbills instead of bombs.
I believe. however. that the raid n the nature of a test flight by Chinese aeroplanes capable of flying shu without a load of bombs". oda pointed oyi nobody" saw the hich visited southern hu just before dawn and apparently followed a course along the sparsely populated mountainous district, avoiding towns and cities and maintaining a high altitude."
The raid. he declared, necessitates no changes in the present air defence programme in this country——Domei.
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