Tokyo, June 12.
Sixteen Chinese planes were shot down in. aerial combat over Chung-King on Monday during the mass air! attack on General Chiang Kai-shek' wartime capital, it was revealed in dispatches reaching here from Japan-tse air bases in China, The messages added that two Japanese craft were lost. According \o the dispatches, Japanese naval aircraft carried out an intensive raid on Chungking on Mon~ day. effectively shattering important military establishments. Scores Chinese combat planes gave battle to the Japanese raiders and in the on-suing fight, 16 Chinese planes were shot down—Domel, Troops and Supplits Bombed At a Japanese Naval Air Bose, June 13.
Already battered by a' series of severe aerial bombardments, Chung~ king was again raided by three waves of Japanese naval _oilzcraft yesterday afternoon, the press see-ion of the Japanese Fleet in Cen= ral China announced this morning, According to the announcement, the raid was carried out in operation with Japanese army alr raft, In a severe dogfight over the city, four out of ten Chinese fighter planes which gave battle to the: Japanese were shot down, the communique added.
many Chungking military as wel The announcement declared that administrative establishments were levelled while fires were} started at several places in the city, According othe announcement, another group of naval planes yesterday. repeatedly bombed concen= trations of Chungking troops and supply concentrations in the neigh-. bourhood of Ichang—Domei,
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