Damage to Foreign Firms Planes Shot Down During the same month, it was further asserted. 29 Chinese aeroplanes were shot down, while 11 were destroyed on the ground. Japanese naval aircraft losses during June numbered four.
On 24 separate occasions, naval aircraft succeeded in "destroying tracks of various railways in China during the month of June, while the number of Chinese troops bombed and strafed from the air ran into five figures, the communique further claimed. Naval aircraft were particularly active along the Shangtung-Kiangsu border where Chinese troops, defeated in the battle of Hsuchow, sought sanctuary. Activities of Chinese troops in the vicinity of the Japanese-occupied Lienyung harbour at the eastern extremity of the Lunghai line were noted, but the size of the Chinese forces in that area was said to be dwindling.
Operations on the Yangtze River, the communique declared, "are progressing smoothly" with surface units overcoming various difficulties, with the assistance of the air force that had successfully surmounted a long spell of unfavourable weather.
May be Protested Swaidy, July 2.
The Japanese naval concentration at Fort Island, Haimun Bay, comprises two cruisers, three destroyers, three armed merchantmen and five armed trawlers, it is reliably reported.
An attempted landing at Guasua, in Haimun, under cover of a naval bombardment at 4 o'clock this morning, is stated to have been repulsed.
At 1.15 this afternoon, 15 aeroplanes appeared over Swatow, nine of which bombed the railway station area. There were few casualties, however, owing to the evacuation of the area.
During yesterday evening's air raid pamphlets, as well as bombs, were dropped. The pamphlets said: "The Chinese and the Japanese people ¿re friends. It is necessary to unite to fight the Communist menace for the ultimate peace of China."
Foreign Consuls are urging foreigners to evacuate Kakchiok, and it is believed that a protest is likely to be mede regarding the damage to foreign property as the result vf air raid Reuter.
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