Braving terrific anti-aircraft fire, a Japanese naval plane unit attacked Chinese positions and 600 troops equipped with tanks and field guns at Kiutang, north-east of Nanning, on Sunday, inflicting heavy losses on them, the headquarters of the China Sea Fleet announced in a communique released yesterday afternoon.
The same air unit bombed and strafed about 100 lorries loaded with military supplies and @ troop concentration numbering about 400 men on a highway between Kweihsien and Hingyeh. Military establishments and warehouses were bombed at Pingyang. Tingchiaohsu, Kweilin and Chienkiang in Kwangsi.
Heavy damage was done to these objectives, the naval communique concluded:
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