Presaging possible extension of the Japanese drive to the north of Sankow, Sinyang, a strategically important town on the southern section of the Peiping-Hankow Railway, 120 Idlometres north. of -Hankow was bombed by Japanese army planes for the first time on Tuesday morning..
Shanghai, July 9.
Jap:
yse warships continued their operations on Yangtze near Pengtseh, Ki province, on. July. 7, "Japanese Fleet authorities announced in a communique yesterday morning.
'A naval air squadron demolished. the headquarters of the. Chinese garrison in Foochow, Fukien provines, on July 7, the communique claimed.
Freight cars running south Pakongkow on the Canton-Hankow Railway in Kwangtung province were derailed or upset by aerial bombs, the communique stated. Tracks were blown up of several points.
'The Yingtak station on the Canton-Hankow railway in Kwangtung Prov. ince was badly damaged and freight ears were destroyed, the statement continued 'The Samshui aerodrome in Kwangtung' also was bombed by naval planes. Hangars and runways were destroyed, the communique con-eluded.
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