A naval landing party which captured Shihhweiyao finished mopping-up operations there, the headquarters of the Japanese China Sea Fleet announced in an official communique on Tuesday.
Booty seized in the Shihhweiyao area comprised 5,000 bags of wheat flour, 9,000 tons of coal, 10,000 logs. 500 sacks of soya beans, 25 freight cars, four heavy guns of 11.5-em. calibre and one 23-min. machine gun.
The naval units were enlarging their scope of operations in the Shihhweiyao area despite repeated counter-attacks, the statement continued. Vessels on the Yangtze were continuing mine-sweeping operations, keeping pace with the progress of the land units, ing infantry operating west of Sichaishan, naval air squadrons bombed Chinese positions and artillery bases at Hwangshihkang and Wuwangmiao, causing heavy damage, the communique claimed.
The naval raiders attacked Kwang-shui, Sanchiatien and Yangchiachai on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, and Shinning, Yoyang, Chunchopu, Kweiyi, Tungeheng and Tsuchow on the Canton-Hankow Railway.
Several scores of Army planes raided the station at Chuchow, junction of the Canton-Hankow and Chuchow-Pinghsiang Railways in Hunan, and demolished. various communication establishment.
Facilities for the transportation of troops between many points in Central and South China were disrupted by the raid, the communique claimed.
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