"The Legislative Council has approved a gift of £150,000 to the Imperial Government, from the Colony's reserve fund. It has also placed the balance of the fund, amounting to £500,000, at the disposal of the Imperial Government, when required.—Reuter, Sixteen Chinese Planes Downed Over Chungking Tokyo, June 12.
Sixteen Chinese planes were shot down in aerial combat over Chungking on Monday during the mass air attack on General Chiang Kai-shek' wartime capital, it was revealed in dispatches reaching here from Japanese air bases in China. The m added that two Japanese craft were lost. According to the dispatches, Japanese naval aircraft carried out an intensive raid on Chungking on Monday effectively shattering important military establishments. Scores of Chinese combat planes' gave battle to the Japanese raiders and in the ensuing fight, 16 Chinese planes were shot down.—Domei.
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