Without any warning, Chinese antiaircraft guns suddenly opened up at 10 o'clock this morning, when a lone Japanese scouting aeroplane appeared above Hankow after eluding the Chinese observation posts. The plane, which had come for the purpose of reconnoitring, quickly disappeared.
Thirty minutes later, when the alarm was sounded, other Japanese planes were sighted heading for Hankew. They turned further south, however, and raided Puchi, on the Canton-Hankow Railway, and Kiayu, on the Yangtze River.
At 3.30 this afternoon, approximately 20 Japanese machines, flying in two groups, raided the Hankow aerodrome and were likewise met by heavy anti-aircraft fire.
Several of the planes power-dived and, flying low, bombed and machine-gunned the south-eastern corner of the aerodrome.—Reuter.
Planes Bomb Hankow Aerodrome Japanese Army aircraft at 230 O'clock yesterday afternoon launched a surprise bombardment on five large and eight small Chinese
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