Foreign reports received in Shanghai added confirmation to the Reuter telegram published on Wednesday regarding the Japanese air raid on Hankow which resulted in heavy Japanese casualties. Twenty-one Japanese aeroplanes, most of which were fighters, k part in the raid and were opposed by about 40 Chinese planes. The Japanese lost twelve fighters which were shot down over Hankow, and two bombers which were shot down while bombing the boom at Kiukiang. As far as could be ascertained, none of the Japanese bombers which participated in the raid reached Hankow, being intercepted en route.' The Chinese lost two machines in the encounter,
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