Sweeping over Hainan Island after an absence of three days, raiding apanese naval planes on Friday tactically annihilated" the Chinese divisional headquarters building at Kiungchow, the northern part of the island south-west of Hoihow, a Japanese China Sea Fleet communique declared at noon yesterday.
Swatow also was a target of the air raiders, who bombed various establishments near the railway station and destroyed the railroad at several points, the communique said.
Several attempts at bombing by Chinese planes were frustrated by Japanese naval air forces near Anking on Friday and the Chinese craft failed to inflict any losses on the Japanese, the communique further stated.
With the weather beginning to improve, the statement continued, the air units of the Japanese naval forces resumed vigorous activities on Friday and inflicted heavy losses on Chines? forces and positions on both banks of the Yangtze River.
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