Japanese naval aircraft May 28 ranged for and wide over four [Chinese provinces in "destructive bombing missions against the communications facilities, concentrations Jand aeronautical establishments of lengthy communique Issued yesterday morning by the [Japanese China Seas Fleet command in Shanghai claimed, About 30 planes participated in an attack "upon military establishments, railway facilities, and other objec: tives in Canton with success, the announcement asserted, Bombed were Hwangsha station, the southern ter~ minus. of the Canton-Hankow rally way; the Kwanglung Provincial Gov-Jernment and the Cantonese Army Headquarters, The station building, freight cars assembled in the yards, and godowns were set on fire, while part of the Chinese Army headquarters was demolished. Intensive anti-aircraft fire grested the Japanese machines as They passed over Canton and its vicinity, but none of the planes was hit, One of the Chinese antiair-Jeraft batteries mounted atop a sugar factory west of Tungkwan, enced" by direct hits upon the Structure whioh was set on' fire, the communique added, In Central China, intensive bomb ing and. strafing operations against Chinese troops massed near Haichow, the western end of the Lunghai railway, were continued, General Banzai Here Shanghai, May 29.
'A Japanese adviser to 'a series of Chinese warlords, a social worker, military chauffeurs" and dockyard engineers were among the 412 pa sengers brought here on May 27 from Japan by the Shanghai Maru, Leading the passenger list was Lieut-Gen.-Rihachiro Banzai, a member of the House of Peers and an adviser to a long series of Chinese generals, beginning with Yuan Shih-kal.
Another prominent visitor was Mr. Tetsuo Kudo, Parliamentary. Vic Minister of Public Welfare, wob will remain in Central China for a week, inspecting social welfare facilities Mr. Jinki Kamoi, an engineer, came at the head of thirteen experts of the bishi Dockyards in Nagasaki to fake over the management of the Kiangnan Dockyards, Also aboard the vessel were 43 military chauffeurs and nine members of the Aichi Prefectural Assembly, who will inspect industrial conditions in Central China,
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