A squadron of the Japanese naval air force was active over the Yangtze and in South China on Friday during inclement weather, bombing Chinese positions and concentrations of troops and assisting in operations of land lorees and worships, according to a communique released by Japanese Fleet authorities at noon yesterday.
Heavy damage was done to Chinese positions, the communique claimed.
As on the previous day the naval raiders heavily bombed the Pitsunchwang iron bridge along the Canton-Hankow Railway.
At Wuchow in-Kwangsi province the planes damaged a cartridge manufacturing plant, godowns and a sulphurie acid factory, the statement said, Military barracks adjacent to the aerodrome were said io have been blown up.
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