Some idea of the damage caused by the Yellow River Floods is provided by this aeroplane picture which shows the countryside under water as a result of the break in the Tiver dykes, ese planes which. participated in the attack on Hengyang returned safely to their base, 'A large number of naval aircraft commanded by Lieut. Commander, 'Takahashi and Lieut, Nakajima tacked the old and new aerodromes in 'Nanchang. No Chinese planes either on the ground or in the air, 'The hangars and repair fac~ tories in' the new aerodrome were heavily bombed. Five buildings at the alr field were set on fire, the communique said, Many direct ' hits were stored on the old: aerodrome also, where hangars and runways concluded. were badly damaged, the communique
Canton Hankow Railway Bombed Describing it ap a new threat to the continued operation of the Canton-Hankow railway, already severely damaged by bombing on frequent occasions in South China, a Japanese Army spokesman yesterday lannouneed that the northern portion fof the line had been bombed on Saturday by Japanese Army aircraft, Four freight cars and one passenger car of a north-bound train had been hit and destroyed, he claimed.
'The Army alr force, the spokesman further revealed, had also been active In the vicinity' of Nanking, where about 600 guerillas were attacked east, fof Tangsuichen, 25 kilometers east of the former (Chinese capital. Serious losses were*inflicted upon the Fhinese, who possessed trench mortars, he claimed. The operation was carried out n conjunction with surface forees, the spokesman added.
"Japanese Army forces operating on the southern bank of the Yangtze above <Anking, were engaged in an attack on Chinese forces near Lius-Suklao, east of Hukow. Chinese troops were also active near Pengtseh and In the area between Niangniangmiao and Hukow.
These Chinese activities, carried out by bodies of troops numbering at times. 1,000 men, had been re-Vived recently after the Chinese had hastily retired in the face of a rapid Japanese advance along the southern bank of the Yangtze after a landing at Siangkow on June 24. The Japanese operation culminated in the occupation of Hukow on July 4.
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