The Archive · 1939

Military Bases Bombed

Shanghai, Dee. 9.

Chinese military bases along the Chekiang-Kiangst Railway were sub-Jected to attacks by. Japanese naval aircraft on Dee. 7, the Japanese China Seas Fleet announced in its daily communique yesterday. Heavy damage to the railway as well. military depots at Chuchow, Che-Kiang, and Yushan, Kiangs, was in= fioted by these raids, the cnnouncement said. Lishul, a troop concentration point, 78 kilometres south of Kinhwa, Chekiang, was also bombed, announcement added, Maintaining vigorous activity south China, in support of army operations in Kwangsi, naval aircraft on Dee. 7, raided Chusnhsien, on Shanghai, Dee, 11, Chinese munition factories Cheenyang, strategic base. in Hunan province, were subjected to a heavy Serial bombardment by Japanese aval squadrons on Saturday, the Japanese China Seas Fleet announced its daily "communique yesterday. "Almost all" buildings of the arsenal were demolished, while one was seen emitting heavy clouds of black smoke after the attack, the "announcement said, Chinese troop concentrations and munitions depots at. Nanhsinghsu, southeast of "Nanning in. southern Kcwangsi, were bombed and machine gunned on Friday by naval air units ce-operating wich Japanese Army forces active in that area, according the communique—Domel.

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