Two Hit in Chinese Raid; Many Planes Claimed Destroyed at Hankow; Horrors at Hanyang Hankow, July 20.
O Japanese warships were hit in a raid by Chinese aircraft on Japanese warship concentrations in the vicinity of Hukow yesterday morning, according to a communique issued by Chinese Aviation Headquarters.
Another warship, it is claimed, was hit in a second raid carried out at Hukow yesterday afternoon.
The air raid alarm was sounded at 10.30 a.m. today, when 18 Japanese bombers, escorted by pursuit planes, were sighted en route to Hankow. The "all-clear" signal was sounded at 11.15 a.m., when the Japanese "planes were seen to be returning eastward.—Reuter.
The suburbs of Kiukiang were subjected to a severe aerial bombardment this morning by two Japanese heavy bombers, which were escorted by a number of pursuit planes.
The populace of Kiukiang is living a harrowing life, with air-raid sirens going all the time from morning until night, as Japanese aircraft are keeping up a continuous bombing of Chinese positions in the vicinity of Kiukiang.
Eighteen Japanese bombers this morning visited Ngochen and Anyang, on the south bank of the Yangtze south-east of Hankow, but the visitors left after dropping a few bombs.
The alarm was sounded twice in Hankow this morning, but on each Occasion the Japanese raiders turned back after bombing cities below Hankow.—Reuter.
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