Japanese naval aircraft shot down "with certainty" three out of four Chinese planes at Liuchow in Kwan 3i on Tuesday, Japanese naval authorities claimed in a communique yesterday afternoon.
Two groups of naval planes made the lon lit to central Kwangsi to bomb the Liuchow aerodrome.
The fourth Chinese plane fled, while the Japanese craft demolished more than ten planes on the ground. Some of the hangars were set afire, the communique claimed.
All the Japanese planes returned to their bases safely, the statement said.
A number of naval arried out raids in Central and South China on Tuesday.
One unit assisted land troops in dispersing. Chinese columns west of Kwangtsi and north-west of Wusueh, 45 kilometres upstream from Kiukiang.
A squadron which was active in south-eastern Honan bombed Loshan, 0 kilometres east of Sinyang, and untiehpu, 30 kilometres east of Loshan, checking the northward march of several Chinese columns, the statement continued.
Another unit of bombers appeared over Shangcheng, near the southeastern border of Honan, and inflicted heavy losses on Chinese concentrations in the walled city, the statement claimed.
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